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European Commission, Bavarian Nordic Donate 215,000 Monkeypox Vaccines to Africa

The European Commission has announced it is coordinating the procurement and donation of over 215,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). On Tuesday, the Africa CDC declared a public health emergency due to the monkeypox outbreak across the continent and appealed for approximately 2 million vaccine doses. From January to July,…