Monkeypox in Patient Immunized with ACAM2000 Smallpox Vaccine During 2022 Outbreak
Matthew D Turner, J.J. Mandia, Case Keltner, Robert Haynes, P Faestel, Luke E Mease
Abstract
We report a case of monkeypox in the United States in a patient who had been vaccinated with ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine 8 years earlier. Despite his vaccination status, he still contracted disease. He showed prodromal symptoms preceding development of painless penile lesions that later coalesced.
Topics & Concepts
MonkeypoxVirologyOutbreakSmallpoxSmallpox vaccineMedicineVaccinationVacciniaCowpoxBiologyGeneticsRecombinant DNAGenePoxvirus research and outbreaksBacillus and Francisella bacterial researchRabies epidemiology and control