“The bottom line is that even those that were vaccinated many decades before maintain a very, very high level of antibodies and the ability to neutralise the virus,” said Dr. Vaccinated older adults might become infected but are likely to escape with only mild symptoms.
And many older adults, the group most likely to succumb to the monkeypox virus, are at least somewhat protected by decades-old smallpox vaccinations, studies suggest.
But they are not yet affected by the current outbreak. One comprises infants younger than six months. Most children and adults with healthy immune systems are likely to dodge severe illness, experts said in interviews. For a world weary of fighting the coronavirus, the monkeypox outbreak poses a key question: Am I at risk?
