After the first vaccination appointments against monkey pox were fully booked within half an hour, the city of Vienna took care of the supplies. The federal government requested 520 additional doses of vaccine, which were also received. “This means that all people who are now registered and who have indicated online that they belong to one of the risk groups can now receive a first vaccination at the end of October,” says the cabinet of Alderman for Public Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ).
You can register for the vaccination on Monday afternoon, after which another 1200 vaccination appointments will be activated. Because after the preventive vaccinations have been administered intradermally – ie under the skin – approximately 1,200 people can be provided with a monkey pox vaccination with the 520 extra doses. In total, the city of Vienna will have vaccinated about 1,900 people against monkey pox by the end of October. By the end of the month, 96 people can be vaccinated every day and the right infrastructure is in place, it was emphasized.
Most need a second vaccination
The additional vaccinations against monkey pox will start on Wednesday 5 October. So far, about 380 people in Vienna have been vaccinated before exposure – ie as a precautionary measure – and about 250 people have been vaccinated after proven direct physical contact with an infected person. “The consultations to date have shown that 92 percent of people who have been vaccinated for the first time also need a second vaccination,” the hacker bureau said.
In Vienna, 2,553 people are currently registered for a preventive vaccination against monkey pox. So far, 226 cases of monkeypox have been found in the federal capital. Eleven of these cases are still active, 215 of those affected have already recovered. By a binding decision of the Minister of Health, only people who indicate that they belong to one of the strictly defined risk groups may be vaccinated preventively.
These are in particular men with frequently changing same-sex sexual contacts, health professionals who are exposed to a very high risk of exposure (for example, when working in wards, outpatient clinics or operations dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of people infected with monkeypox, note) and personnel in specialized laboratories who work with orthopox viruses, ie who handle samples from humans infected with monkeypox or the virus itself.
66 percent said they were at risk
66.8 percent of the people registered in Vienna identified themselves as a risk group when registering. However, a third of the registered people did not – from the point of view of the city of Vienna, for understandable reasons. “The combination of a huge shortage of vaccines and the provisions of the federal decree creates a situation where interested parties are de facto forced to disclose very personal information about their own private life to an authority,” the city of Vienna said in a statement. .
This unsatisfactory situation can only be solved by the rapid delivery of sufficient monkeypox vaccine to Austria: “Here the federal government must make even more efforts.”
Source: Krone
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