Study Suggests Mpox Vaccine Protection Quickly Fades

HealthDay (4/1, Thompson) reports, “Vaccine protection against mpox fades quickly in the human immune system, even in people who’ve received the full two-dose regimen,” according to real-world study data presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Researchers found that “antibody levels fell to low or near zero within the first few months of getting the vaccine, unless the person had previously received a smallpox vaccine.”