New Delhi: Temperature and visual screening will be carried out at Changi and Seletar airports from Friday onwards as a precautionary measure against mpox, after one confirmed case of a potentially more serious variant each was reported in Sweden and Thailand. The Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Transport and Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said …
Copenhagen: Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic said Thursday that it was “better prepared” to supply its mpox vaccine for the current surge of the virus than it was for the 2022 epidemic. The vaccine maker said last week that it was ready to supply up to 10 million doses of its vaccine targeting mpox by the …
By Maggie Fick London: Danish biotech firm Bavarian Nordic could ramp up production of its mpox vaccine even before having orders lined up, based on the outcome of talks this week with the World Health Organisation, the company’s CEO told Reuters on Tuesday. Chief Executive Officer Paul Chaplin said in an interview that the company …
A World Health Organization official on Tuesday emphasized that mpox, whether the old or new strain, is not comparable to COVID-19 because its spread is controllable. Authorities know the measures necessary to contain its transmission. “We can and must tackle mpox together,” stated Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, during a media briefing. “So …
Geneva: The World Health Organisation’s chief said Sunday he was considering convening an expert committee to advise on whether the growing mpox outbreak in Africa should be declared an international emergency. Since last September, cases have surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to a strain of the virus which has recently been detected …
New Delhi: Pune based Serum Institute of India (SII) has dispatched the first consignment of malaria vaccines to Africa, the company said in a statement on Monday. Named R21/Matrix-M, the malaria vaccine has been developed in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the US-based biotechnology firm Novavax’s Matrix-M adjuvant (a medicine that increases or …