Vaccination against monkey pox: in Nantes, the fear of stigma

Dn the ground floor of this annex of the Nantes University Hospital, the visitor is warned by a sign: “Preventive vaccination Monkeypox – 3^e stage. In the elevator, another poster informs about the different modes of transmission and the symptoms of monkeypox, but we barely have time to read the first lines when the door opens on Patrick Blanco, the doctor. in charge of this campaign launched on July 13 in the Loire-Atlantique prefecture. Since then, more than 300 doses have been administered there. This is both small compared to the target population (more than 4,000 people in Nantes alone, 18,000 in the Pays de la Loire region, 250,000 in France, where, on August 4, more than 52,000 doses had been distributed throughout the territory), and many given the cr…