Australia Lifts Age Restriction on Mpox Vaccine, Does Not Recommend Booster

Vaccine advice has been updated in response to an uptick of cases in Australia.

A family nurse practitioner prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine for inoculating a patient at a vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Aug. 30, 2022. Jeenah Moon/AP Photo

Australia’s vaccine advisory group has removed the age restriction of 18 years and over for the mpox (monkeypox) vaccine.

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) recently reviewed vaccine guidance in response to an “upsurge of mpox cases in Australia.”