Bavarian Nordic monkeypox vaccine gets preliminary nod from EU drug regulator

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COPENHAGEN: Danish biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic said on Friday (Jul 22) the European Union's (EU) drug regulator had recommended its Imvanex vaccine be approved to also include protection against monkeypox on its label. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) had 'adopted a positive opinion recommendi

COPENHAGEN: Danish biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic said on Friday the European Union's drug regulator had recommended its Imvanex vaccine be approved to also include protection against monkeypox on its label.

Bavarian's vaccine, the only one to have won approval for the prevention of monkeypox disease in the United States and Canada, has in the EU so far only been approved to treat smallpox.

 

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