Much like it has with other infectious diseases in helping develop diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines, the Texas Biomedical Institute is ramping up its research into monkeypox.
Until there are more doses of the monkeypox vaccine available in Bexar County, Metro Health says it's only offering doses to cases it is investigating. KSAT's Jessie Degollado says in the meantime, Texas Biomed is ramping up its research on monkeypox like it did with COVID-19.
Schlesinger said when it comes to infectious diseases, “I think we need a new agenda where we’re much more proactive in building our public health infrastructure, our education programs, and developing a much more robust and financially sustainable pipeline for new therapies and vaccines way ahead of cases.”
He said it’s going to take the kind of transformation that Texas Biomed has led by working with public and private agencies working globally to solve “growing infectious disease threats.”The most recent was the role it played in the new Novavax vaccine against Covid-19.By using its models, Schlesinger said, “Our vaccine is safe and effective. And I’m really happy it’s now available to the public.”
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