Subscribe & Follow
Advertise your job vacancies
Emergent to donate 50,000 vaccine doses to address mpox outbreak in Africa
Emergent BioSolutions said it would donate 50,000 doses of its vaccine, ACAM2000, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other impacted countries of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to address the current mpox outbreak.
Source: Reuters.
The World Health Organization last week declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years as a new variant of the disease, known as clade Ib, spread rapidly in Africa.
Emergent's vaccine, approved for smallpox, has been used as an mpox shot but the US Food and Drug Administration is yet to approve its application for use against the virus.
Source: Reuters
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world's largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day.
Go to: https://www.reuters.com/Related
The global burden of anaemia 10 Jan 2025 WHO chief's close call in Yemen air strike 27 Dec 2024 Malaria cases up again in 2023, African children worst hit, WHO reports 17 Dec 2024 WHO sends experts to help Congo diagnose mystery disease 9 Dec 2024 Africa health body calls on Trump to honour US vaccine pledges 8 Nov 2024 Imagine signing up for medical aid today and being covered tomorrow! 16 Oct 2024
