The Jynnesos vaccine is highly effective in fighting mpox, and rich countries have stockpiled doses. But in Africa, where mpox is endemic, health officials don't have access to it.
nationwide on Aug. 1, 2022, alone to an average of one new case per week in April, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
After the mpox outbreak began last spring, wealthy countries rushed to the only maker of the Jynneos smallpox vaccine, Denmark’s Bavarian Nordic, to secure millions of doses.announced the first In May, as the World Health Organization announced the mpox outbreak was no longer a public health emergency of international concern,“persisting knowledge gaps related to mpox in Africa, the lack of access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostic testing capacities in many low-income countries.”
Experts say the current outbreak could have been prevented from crossing multiple borders if the virus had been suppressed at its source. According to data from the U.S. CDC,recorded a case of mpox have now detected the virus in the past year.
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