Geneva, Switzerland — The WHO 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 epicenter of the epidemic.'This first prequalification of a vaccine against mpox is an important step in our fight against the disease, both in the context of the current outbreaks in Africa, and in future,' WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
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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