Americans will be eligible to receive the shots

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In the United States, health officials have tallied up to 13 cases so far in eight states: California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington.

However, only a small handful of for now.


Health officials tell CBS News that doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine are being offered to only at-risk close contacts of monkeypox cases in at least four jurisdictions for now: Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia and Washington.

"Vaccine is typically only used if we are concerned about a higher risk type of exposure. Not everyone who is assessed as a contact receives vaccine, because we know that monkeypox is not as easily transmissible buy phone number list as other viruses like COVID-19," Dr. Julia Murphy, public health veterinarian for the Virginia Department of Health, said in a statement.

Health officials in Virginia announced a case on Thursday, in an adult woman who did not need to be hospitalized and is now isolating at home.

"After consultation with the CDC, one person who is a contact of the case is receiving Jynneos," Murphy said.

Doses of the vaccine are being shipped out to states from the federal government's stockpile. A spokesperson for Colorado's health department, which announced a monkeypox case on Thursday, said they received their shipment by Friday morning.

The rollout serves as an early test for Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos, which was approved in 2019 by the Food and Drug Administration for smallpox and monkeypox.

Typically, only select types of laboratory and health care staff who risk exposure through their jobs are vaccinated for orthopoxviruses — the family of viruses that includes both smallpox and monkeypox.