While the vaccine was originally free during the 2022 outbreak, on April 1, Bavarian Nordic A/S, the vaccine manufacturer, ...

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The distribution plan prioritizes the most affected regions, with the Democratic Republic of Congo receiving 85 percent of ...

Pregnant women and infants are at risk should they contract mpox but there are no approved vaccines for this population.

After criticism for its slow response to vaccine distribution, the World Health Organization approved Bavarian Nordic’s mpox ...

Up to 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated to nine countries across Africa, including Nigeria, that have been hit hard ...

The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new variant of the ...

One of the World Health Organization’s most important jobs is managing viral outbreaks. The rapid spread of mpox, a disease related to smallpox, is a reminder of its shortcomings. The WHO has ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated Congo needs at least 3 million mpox vaccines to stop the ...

"What we need is a public health approach where we immunize populations at scale." Drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, which makes the ...