Mon Jun 13, 2022 – 8:17 am EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration announced on Friday that it had ordered an additional 500,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine to add to the 372,000 already purchased by federal officials.
“As of Friday, the U.S. had identified 45 cases in 15 states and the District of Columbia,” the Associated Press reported. “More than 1,300 cases have been found in about 30 other countries outside the areas of Africa where the virus is endemic.”
The disease is primarily spread through close contact, often between homosexual men although the AP downplayed that risk in its reporting.
“Last month, cases began emerging in Europe and the United States,” the AP reported. “Many — but not all — of those who contracted the virus had traveled internationally. Most were men who have sex with men, but health officials stress that anyone can get monkeypox.”
The new fear of monkeypox has raised questions about what public health officials knew about the disease before it became public. For example, on April 21 Canadian health officials ordered 500,000 doses of a smallpox vaccine, which reportedly can be used against monkeypox. However, the first monkeypox
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