Can Baby Boomers quit fearing monkeypox if they were vaccinated against smallpox as kids?
Can Baby Boomers quit fearing monkeypox if they were vaccinated against smallpox as kids?
- August 13, 2022
- Andrew Noymer, associate professor of public health, explains in this guest column for the Tampa Bay Times, Aug. 13, 2022
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Andrew Noymer, associate professor of public health and Andrew Lover write, “Can Americans — baby boomers, mostly — relax if they were vaccinated against smallpox as kids? Maybe, but we are health scientists who have been observing the epidemiology of monkeypox for years, and we are concerned about complacency.”
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