Smallpox

On the impact of LSD on the country's milk production, Balyan said there will be a minimal impact on annual milk production, if any.

The locally developed Ceravac can play a critical role in the efficacy of the National Immunisation Mission

The Bavarian Nordic shot has not undergone clinical trials to evaluate the vaccine's ability to prevent monkeypox in humans, though initial studies suggest it will provide some protection

Although the smallpox jab has shown to reduce the chance of symptomatic infection and severe illness from monkeypox, protection may decline over time.

The Health Security Agency said authorities are reporting about 29 new monkeypox infections every day, compared to about 52 cases a day during the last week in June.

Shares in the Danish biotech, which makes the only monkeypox vaccine approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, have gained 69% since hitting a low in early May

200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries. WHO described the epidemic as containable and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs

Smallpox vaccines are around 85 per cent effective in preventing monkeypox infection, and several countries have said they have begun stockpiling them

Germany detects first case of the West African variant of the virus according to the army medical service

The costs of providing free vaccines are way lower than the costs of a freewheeling epidemic

Smallpox killed about 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century. Symptoms include fever, fatigue and pus-filled sores

Donald Henderson was a former dean of the school's Bloomberg School of Public Health