CDC Issues Health Alert on Mpox Vaccine Recommendations

Health care providers should now ‘advise travelers that mpox exposure risk is associated with sexual contact,’ the CDC says.

This photo shows an electron microscope image of mpox, or monkeypox, provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health advisory on Tuesday recommending that travelers to countries where a certain type of mpox is spreading should be fully vaccinated beforehand.

The clade I strain of mpox, also known as monkeypox, has led to outbreaks across eastern and central Africa in recent months, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the virus a public health emergency of international concern this summer.