Texas has 780 confirmed cases of monkeypox. Anticipating more infections, Dallas and Austin have declared the painful, but nondeadly disease a public health emergency. Vaccines are in short supply nationwide.
spreads through close, intimate skin contact with someone who has the virus, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that many, though not all, of the reported cases have been among men who have sex with men, although that is not historically the community where the virus is typically found.
But those enacted in Dallas and Austin, officials say, are mainly to raise awareness of the disease and encourage those most at risk to do what they can to slow the spread while the community waits for more vaccine to become available. The Texas Department of State Health Services is sending more than 16,000 doses to public health departments this month, officials said.
Some counties, such as Dallas, are allowing appointments to be made only over the phone — with no current online appointment system — and are administering the vaccines in clinics where patients’ privacy can be protected. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved the administration of the vaccine in a shot injected, much like a tuberculosis test, as opposed to into body fat, like more traditional vaccines. By offering the shots in this way, only a fifth of the full dose is needed for each person.
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