BRUSSELS (ANTARA) – The European Union will sign an agreement with a producer to buy around 110,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine to be delivered from the end of June, EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said.
On the sidelines of a meeting of EU health ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday, Kyriakides said the vaccine would be purchased with EU funds and shipped to EU countries.
He did not reveal the name of the vaccine maker. European Commission officials said his name would be announced soon.
The EU drug regulator said this month it was in talks with Danish biotech company Bavarian Nordic about trial data that could support expanding use of the approved Imvanex injection beyond smallpox including monkeypox.
Imvanex is known as Jynneos in the United States,
US regulators have approved the Bavarian smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox.
Several EU countries, including Germany and Spain, have ordered their own monkeypox vaccine.
Kyriakides said the EU had recorded 900 cases of monkeypox.
Source: Reuters
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