In an immediate response to the Mpox (monkeypox) epidemic in Africa, the European Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) announced on 14 August that it would purchase and donate 175,420 doses of MVA-BN ®, the only Mpox vaccine approved by both the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
In addition, the pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic will donate 40,000 doses to HERA.
The vaccines will be distributed by the...