“The cases of monkeypox they are still limited, and we don’t even know how many people still have vaccine immunity, for example the elderly who got the smallpox vaccine years ago. The young people have not received the smallpox vaccine, but the vaccines are there and can be used if needed. we can rest assured“This was said to beraking latest news Salute by Gregg Semenza, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2019, on the sidelines today in Rome of the conference ‘Economics and health, the research behind the great discoveries’ promoted by the San Raffaele University.
“The ‘weapons’ that protected us from that virus are the same things that protect us today from Covid, therefore – said Semenza – all this means that the protection induced by smallpox vaccines then will protect us today too”.