GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization on Friday urged manufacturers to ramp up production of mpox vaccines to rein in the spread of a more dangerous strain of the virus.
The WHO on Wednesday declared the mpox surge a public health emergency of international concern — its highest alert level — with Clade 1b cases soaring in the Democratic Republic of Congo and spreading beyond its borders.'We do need the manufacturers to really scale up so that we've got access to many, many more vaccines,' WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters.The WHO is asking countries with mpox vaccine stockpiles to donate them to countries with ongoing outbreaks.
Bronwyn Nichol, IFRC senior public health emergencies officer, said most vaccine stocks were in wealthy nations, and those sent to Africa so far were 'a drop in the bucket.''There is a critical shortage of testing, treatment, and vaccines across the continent. These shortages are severely hampering the ability to contain the outbreak,' she said.
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