MOH doesn't recommend mass vaccination against monkeypox as 'benefits do not outweigh risk': Ong Ye Kung

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SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health (MOH) does not recommend mass vaccination against monkeypox, even as Singapore confirmed two more case of the virus on Sunday (July 24), bringing the total number of infections here to eight.

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In a Facebook post on Monday, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said that given the"self-limiting nature of the disease", mass vaccination against monkeypox is not recommended by MOH as the"benefits do not outweigh the risk".

The WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had overruled a panel of advisers and declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern”, a designation the WHO currently uses to describe only two other diseases, Covid-19 and polio. "The cases were promptly isolated. There was no evidence of them transmitting the infection to other people in the community," Mr Ong added.

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