The Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department will be offering monkeypox vaccines every Tuesday and Friday, the agency said Monday in a Facebook post.

According to the post, the following adults are eligible for pre-exposure vaccination if they live or work in Wyoming:

  • Men who have sex with men and who have had multiple or anonymous sexual partners in the last year
  • Partners of men who have sex with men who have had multiple or anonymous sexual partners in the last year
  • Transgender and nonbinary persons assigned male at birth who have sex with multiple or anonymous sexual partners who are male or male assigned at birth within the past year
  • Sex workers (of any sex)
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Appointments can be made by calling 307-633-4000.

Monday's Facebook post came just hours before the Wyoming Department of Health's announcement that a Laramie County man had tested positive for monkeypox, making him the state's first case.

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