A Houston man named Wesley Wallace believes he got Monkeypox from kissing someone inside a bar during the July 4th weekend. He says he has severe flu-like symptoms and that his friends are going out of town to get the highly in-demand but hard-to-get vaccine called JYNNEOS or ACAM2000 because it’s unavailable in the Houston area.
He says he has another week in quarantine which will total a month. Close skin-to-skin contact is the primary transmission source even laying on the global emergency, a declaration Saturday that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and affect the scramble for scarce vaccines.
