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Bavarian Nordic monkeypox vaccine wins EU approval

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OSLO - Danish biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic said on Monday (July 25) the European Commission had given permission for its Imvanex vaccine to be marketed as protection against monkeypox, as recommended last week by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The approval comes just one day after the World Health Organisation issued a high-level alert declaring the rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak...

An employee of the vaccine company Bavarian Nordic shows a picture of a vaccine virus on a display in a laboratory of the company in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, on May 24, 2022.OSLO - Danish biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic said on Monday the European Commission had given permission for its Imvanex vaccine to be marketed as protection against monkeypox, as recommended last week by the European Medicines Agency .

"The availability of an approved vaccine can significantly improve nations' readiness to fight emerging diseases, but only through investments and structured planning of the biological preparedness," Bavarian Chief Executive Paul Chaplin said. But the company has supplied the vaccine to several EU countries during the current monkeypox outbreak for what is known as "off-label" use.The approval is valid in all European Union Member States as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, Bavarian Nordic said in a statement.

 

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