It also comes after Saturday’s choice of the World Health Organization (WHO) to trigger its highest level of alert in the face of the outbreak. These exceeded the 16,000 mark at the end of last week, the majority of them in Europe.
The green light from the Commission is valid in all member countries of the European Union as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, specifies the group.
The Imvanex vaccine is marketed as Jynneos in the United States, where it has been licensed against monkeypox since 2019. This makes it the only licensed vaccine for the prevention of the disease.
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First detected in humans in 1970, monkeypox is less dangerous and contagious than its cousin human smallpox, eradicated in 1980.
Contracted by close contact, it usually heals on its own after two or three weeks.
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