EU accelerates production of monkeypox vaccine

Currently, the European Union Medicines Agency (EMA) is in talks with a manufacturer of smallpox vaccine to use against the disease. monkey poxto ensure that a vaccine is available when needed.

When used, the vaccine is highly likely to be administered to people who have been in close contact with monkeypox to prevent the disease from spreading.

However, the EMA maintains that at this time the monkeypox outbreak is not a public health emergency. Since early May, more than 550 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in 30 countries outside West African countries, where monkeypox is endemic, the World Health Organization said.

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