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REPORTAGE. After a sluggish start, vaccination against Monkeypox is accelerating. At Saint-Antoine hospital, the infectious disease department feels very lonely.
By Caroline Peat
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Pabout being late for her appointment. At eleven o’clock precisely, Thursday August 18, Florian presents himself in front of the vaccination center of the Saint-Antoine hospital (AP-HP), on the ground floor of the infectiology department. The young engineer, originally from Burgundy, has been waiting to be vaccinated for more than a month and a half. “From the first weeks of the monkeypox epidemic in Europe, I understood that I was potentially at risk since I am homosexual, that I travel a lot to take advantage of my celibacy”, explains the young man, alluding to the simultaneous outbreak of the disease in the community of homosexual men in several European countries, including Spain and the United Kingdom, from May 2022. Despite his best efforts, the young man did not succeed.. .
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