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GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Health Organization said Friday it had for the first time prequalified an mpox vaccine -- a move expected to speed up access to the jabs to fight an epidemic raging in Africa.The announcement came on the heels of the arrival of the first MVA-BN vaccines to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the epidemic.
It causes fever, muscular aches and large boil-like skin lesions, and can in some cases be deadly.The WHO declared an international emergency over mpox last month, concerned by the surge in cases of the new Clade 1b strain in the DRC that spread to nearby countries.DRC has recorded nearly 22,000 cases and 716 deaths linked to the virus since January.So far, some 200,000 vaccine doses have been delivered to the DRC by the European Union, along with about 50,000 from the United States.
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