Mpox global health emergency: Insights into the virus, immune responses, and advancements in vaccines PART II: Insights into the advancements in vaccines.

Mpox is currently a global health emergency. This review (Part II) aims to provide insights into Mpox vaccines and their advancements, offering easily digestible information for healthcare workers and researchers. Current Mpox vaccines are all live-attenuated, previously approved for smallpox, and are classified into non-replicating (Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic or MVA-BN) and replicating vaccines (Lister clone16m8 KM Biologic or LC16m8KMB and Acambis2000 or ACAM2000).

Mpox global health emergency: Insights into the virus, immune responses, and advancements in vaccines PART I: Insights into the virus and immune responses.

Mpox, the zoonotic disease caused by Monkeypox virus (MPXV), is currently a global health emergency. This review (Part I) aims to provide insights into the virus life cycle, epidemiology, host immune responses, and immune evasion mechanisms. Mpox symptoms is similar to smallpox but with lower mortality rates and lower transmissibility.