As monkeypox threat grows, scientists debate best vaccine strategy - Science

Favored shot is a seemingly safer smallpox vaccine, but efficacy remains unclear

In 1959, German microbiologist Anton Mayr took a strain of vaccinia, a poxvirus used to inoculate against smallpox, and started to grow it in cells taken from chicken embryos. After several years of … [+8379 chars]

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