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Madrid (AFP) – Spain detected 59 cases of monkeypox this Wednesday. Carolina Darias, Minister of Health of the Spanish Government, announced that they will buy vaccines and antivirals within the framework of a joint program of the European Union (EU).
Some 59 positive cases were detected by PCR test this Wednesday, 20 of them confirmed by genomic sequencing, as announced by the Minister of Health Carolina Darias during a press conference.
In total, 171 suspected cases have already been detected in Spain.
The southern European nation will acquire the ‘Imvanex’ vaccines and the ‘Tecovirimat’ antivirals through the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), the minister said.
HERA, which met on Wednesday morning, will make “smallpox vaccine available to member states, in this case the ‘Imvanex’ vaccine,” he said.
He added that “Spain is going to participate in this process together with the rest of the member states” to access the vaccine and “the doses will be shared equally among the member states.”
‘Imvanex’, from the ‘Bavarian Nordic’ laboratory, is a third-generation vaccine authorized in Europe since 2013 and indicated against smallpox in adults.
There are no specific treatments or vaccines for monkeypox, but outbreaks can be controlled with smallpox vaccination, according to the WHO.
Monkeypox, of which cases have recently been reported in Europe and North America, is a rare disease native to Africa.
with AFP
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