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After confirming 16 thousand cases of monkey pox Only in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the highest level of alert, which triggered the extension, by the European Commission, of a vaccine that stops the increase of the disease.
“This approval of the monkeypox vaccine is an example of good cooperation between Bavarian Nordic and European regulators, an extension of employment that typically takes six to nine months,” the Danish manufacturer said in a statement.
The vaccine called Imvanex is the only formulation that has been approved for the prevention of monkeypox in the United States and Canada.but until now “it had only been approved in Europe to treat human smallpox,” he cited Millennium. In this way, the vaccine will be available for the 27 countries of the European Union.
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how it spread
Monkeypox is an endemic disease in parts of countries such as Nigeria, but on April 29, 2022, the first case was detected in the United Kingdom. This was a British resident who developed symptoms of the disease after traveling to Nigeria. The patient returned to the United Kingdom on May 4 and represented the so-called zero case or index case.
Zoonotic disease is caused by a virus. A note from the portal United Nations indicates that it can be transmitted from animals to humans and can also be spread from person to person. “Interestingly, the disease is so named because it was detected in several apes in a laboratory in 1958. However, most of the animals susceptible to contracting the disease and then infecting people are rodents, such as the Gambian giant rats, the dormouse or prairie dogs.
The countries where this disease is endemic are: Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and South Sudan.
