(Original title: EU will buy 110,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine to start delivery at the end of June)
On the sidelines of a meeting of EU health ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday, EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said that the EU will sign an agreement with a monkeypox vaccine manufacturer on the same day to supply about 110,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine from the end of June, the APP has learned. . The vaccine maker’s name has not been released.
The European Union’s medicines regulator said this month that it was in talks with Danish biotech Bavarian Nordic over trial data. The trial data could support expanding the approved use of the Imvanex vaccine, known as Jynneos in the U.S., beyond smallpox, including monkeypox.
It is understood that the United States and Canada have approved Bavarian’s smallpox vaccine for the treatment of monkeypox. Some EU countries, including Germany and Spain, have also ordered the monkeypox vaccine.
The EU has recorded 900 cases of monkeypox, Kyriakides said.