(Adds total value of secured contracts in paragraph 8, revenue forecast in paragraph 9) Aug 21 (Reuters) – Danish biotech firm Bavarian Nordic said on Wednesday that it has received a contract to supply 440,000 doses of its smallpox and mpox vaccines to an undisclosed European country. The company said the latest order was anticipated …
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 …
Amid the World Health Organisation (WHO) announcement of monkeypox as a global health emergency, the state public health department issued guidelines for surveillance and management of the disease on Monday. As per officials, monkeypox patients must be kept in an isolation ward or a separate room at home with proper ventilation. The patient should always …
Mumbai: The year 2023 saw the World Health Organization (WHO) announce the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, with WHO president Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus declaring that the virus was no longer a global health emergency. India detected its first case of the JN.1 variant, which led the Union government to ask states to monitor influenza cases, …
Mpox has mostly been confined to developing countries for years. In May of this year, the World Health Organization announced the end of the global health emergency related to mpox, about a year after the disease, previously known as monkeypox, began spreading globally. WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attributed the decision to declining global case …