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A health care worker prepares to administer the monkeypox vaccine. There is only a limited federal supply of the recently approved vaccine being distributed. On Saturday, the World Health Organization declared the virus a global health emergency.For weeks, Austin tech worker Taylor Scot Harrell desperately tried to get the monkeypox vaccine ahead of his vacation so that he wouldn’t contract a painful and contagious skin rash on an upcoming trip to Europe.
On Saturday, the chief of the World Health Organization declared that the monkeypox outbreak, now in more than 70 countries, is an “extraordinary” situation that qualifies as a global emergency. In Texas, health officials are allowing doses only for those with known exposure, although other states where counts are higher have gotten more doses than they can use for a broader range of high-risk recipients. Texas officials say they have so far been able to meet the demand for shots by people who have been exposed
The difficulty in getting a vaccine in Texas frustrates Harrell. His neighbor was vaccinated by public health officials in New York last month — at the airport, the moment he got off the plane to head to the Pride Parade — even though he also had not been exposed. It also can travel through respiratory droplets while kissing. And it can be contracted by touching contaminated surfaces, bedding and clothes.
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