Monkeypox vaccine available in NW Arkansas

Confirmed circumstances of monkeypox in Arkansas are as much as 26, based on the Arkansas Division of Well being.

State of play: Three spots in NWA are providing the monkeypox vaccine, together with the well being division clinic on Wimberly Drive in Fayetteville, Neighborhood Pharmacy on Emma Avenue in Springdale and AR Care on Springdale Avenue in Springdale.

Sure, and: The vaccine, efficient after publicity and earlier than signs emerge, is offered for:

• Folks with confirmed and presumed exposures, together with those that had shut bodily contact with somebody recognized with monkeypox.
• Those that know their sexual companion was recognized with monkeypox.
• Males who’ve intercourse with males who, within the final 14 days, had a sexual encounter in a venue the place there was recognized unfold of monkeypox or in an space the place it is spreading.

The massive image: The Biden administration is rushing up its vaccine distribution effort, Axios’ Herb Scribner writes, after declaring the monkeypox outbreak a public well being emergency on Aug. 4.

Be sensible: The illness is unfold via skin-to-skin contact with infectious rash, scabs and physique fluids. It might probably additionally transmitted via contaminated gadgets, corresponding to clothes or respiratory secretions.

• Monkeypox shouldn’t be airborne.

Zoom out: The U.S. has greater than 15,900 monkeypox circumstances, based on the CDC.