President Joe Biden: US has enough vaccines to deal with monkeypox outbreak – USA TODAY

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A day after saying “everybody should be concerned” about an outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox, President Joe Biden on Monday sent a more reassuring message.

Biden said the smallpox vaccine is effective on monkeypox and the United States has enough “to deal with the likelihood of a problem.”

“I just don’t think it rises to the level of the kind of concern that existed with COVID-19,” Biden said during a news conference in Tokyo.

He’d been asked whether Americans should expect a similar actions to the quarantines being imposed in some countries where there are infections.

“No, I don’t think so,” Biden responded. “Thus far, it doesn’t seem to be a need for any kind of extra efforts beyond what’s going on.”

“But I think people should be careful,” he added.

Nearly a dozen countries are investigating “atypical” outbreaks of monkeypox, a disease that comes from the same family of viruses as smallpox and is typically found in central and west Africa.

The U.S. has recorded two cases — in Massachusetts and in New York City.

The World Health Organization on Friday said it was stepping up efforts to understand and combat the virus.

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