Center "Vector" in the coming weeks will register the first drug in Russia against smallpox

“Registration is expected literally ... in days or weeks, quite quickly.

I hope (that this will happen within a few weeks. -

),” he told TASS.

Earlier, the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Veronika Skvortsova, said that FMBA specialists have created a vaccine against monkeypox, the development is at the stage of preclinical studies.

In early September, a new case of monkeypox was detected in St. Petersburg.

The man, diagnosed with the disease, was hospitalized.