Health Monkeypox: symptoms, how it spreads and keys to differentiate it from another disease
The
European Union
has signed an agreement with Bavarian Nordic for the supply of some
110,000 doses of
monkeypox vaccines, the EU Commission and the company said.
The vaccines will be purchased with
EU funds
and delivered to EU states, EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides has said.
The
doses
will be delivered in proportion to the population, starting with the states with the most urgent needs
. Deliveries will begin immediately
and be completed in the coming months, the company has said.
Around
900 cases of monkeypox
have been registered in 19 EU countries and also in Norway and Iceland, which will be entitled to receive doses despite
not being members of the EU
, the Commission has indicated.
Danish biotech Bavarian Nordic
's
vaccine , known as Imvanex in Europe and Jynneos in the United States, has been approved against
smallpox
.
The
vaccine
against monkeypox is not yet licensed in the EU, the EU Commission said. "However, the smallpox vaccine also protects people from
monkeypox
, as this virus is closely related to the smallpox virus," the Commission pointed out.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is in talks with
Bavarian Nordic
for rapid approval. Some EU states, including
Germany and Spain
, have already placed their own orders for monkeypox vaccines.
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