Supplies of monkeypox vaccine 'limited', warns WHO

The WHO has estimated that 10m vaccine doses are needed to curtail the monkeypox outbreak, but just 1.5m vials are available globally.

Supplies of a vaccine to prevent monkeypox are “limited” as an analysis shows just 1.5m vials are available globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.

More than 40,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported to the WHO to date, which includes 113 cases in Ireland.