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Date Published: 03/06/2022

ARCHIVED - First monkeypox vaccines arrive in Spain

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Only a small number of doses have been purchased by Spain, which will be used in serious cases

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - First monkeypox vaccines arrive in Spain

As the number of confirmed monkeypox cases continues to climb around the globe, the Minister of Health has announced that the first vaccines against the virus have arrived in Spain, although the limited number means that they will be kept for patients who have a higher risk of developing a serious illness as a result of infection.

On top of these, another 200 doses have been purchased from another European country and will arrive “imminently.” At this point in time, the Ministry is adamant that the general population won’t be vaccinated against monkeypox as the risk of transmission remains very low.

The Spanish Medicines Agency is working on a joint purchase agreement within the EU, so that from now on member states won’t have to pay for the jabs. The drug that has already arrived is the antiviral Tecovirimat, which has proven to be the most effective against monkeypox.

The joint purchase agreement involves the Inmavex smallpox vaccine made by Danish company Bavarian Nordic, which is believed to be effective against the non-human monkeypox variant as well.

As of Thursday June 2, a total of 156 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in Spain, 13 more than the previous day. The Minister took the opportunity of announcing the arrival of the vaccines to reiterate that monkeypox is not a disease limited to homosexual men and appealed to everyone to end that “stigmatisation” that has emerged.

"It is not exclusive to any group, we can all be infected by close contact and in the transmission conditions that we all know", that is, through bodily fluids.

Now read: Experts divided about quarantining pets exposed to monkeypox in Spain

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