“One smallpox vaccine has been approved in Canada, the EU and the US, and for monkeypox... About 16 million doses of this vaccine are available worldwide.

However, most of them are not packaged, which means that it will take several months to fill the bottles and prepare them for use, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

He added that two more monkeypox vaccines are being considered.

Earlier, Ghebreyesus said that WHO is not yet recommending mass vaccination against monkeypox.

In July, Elena Malinnikova, MD, head of the Department of Virology at the Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, commented on the monkeypox situation in an interview with Nation News.