MPox vaccines in Tas

MPox (monkeypox) vaccines are now available across Tasmania.

MPox is a viral illness that causes a rash. Most people recover within a few weeks, but it can sometimes cause serious illness requiring hospital admission.

MPox is vaccine-preventable. Two doses given four weeks apart is effective in reducing the risk of MPox.

The following people aged 16 years and older are recommended to be vaccinated against MPox:

• all sexually active gay, bisexual, nonbinary people assigned male at birth, trans people, and other men who have sex with men (including with cis and trans men)

• sexual partners of the people above and

• sex workers.

To find out more about MPox and where you can get vaccinated, please visit hwww.health.tas.gov. au/mpox or call the Public Health Hotline on 1800 671 738.

By Samuel Watchman