Two people considered to have had risky contact with a monkey pox patient were vaccinated at the Bichat hospital in Paris, we learned from the Directorate General of Health. 

vs In accordance with the opinion of the High Authority for Health (HAS), “it is a very targeted vaccination which is offered to people who have had a contact considered to be at risk” , it was indicated.

The first vaccinated is a man in his thirties and residing in Paris, who wished to remain anonymous, told AFP to be the contact case of the first confirmed patient in France on May 20.

“I saw him on May 14 in the afternoon in an apartment in Paris. I did not have sex with this person, but I was in prolonged (physical) contact with this person, for three hours, in the same space ,” he told AFP.

“My case was discussed, because I was not exposed through sexual relations, which does not make me a red case, but rather orange ,” he explained.

France currently has seven “proven” cases of monkeypox, new Health Minister Brigitte Bourguignon said on Wednesday, adding that the country had the necessary stocks of smallpox vaccine to vaccinate contact cases.