By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Immunogenicity after mpox vaccination lasted longer among people who had received a smallpox vaccination as a child than among those who had not, according to data reported at the ESCMID Global 2024 Congress, held in Barcelona, Spain (oral abstract 0212).
However, Marc Conrad Shamier, MD, a PhD candidate at the Erasmus Medical Center, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was quick to point out that it is unknown what this means for the risk for infection.