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US increases supply of monkeypox vaccine, adding 1.8 million doses

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Ahmed avoulenein and kanishka singhh

Washington - The United States to order Bayern Nardick's Jynneos Waktin for 18 million times from August to expand the supply of monkeypox vaccine. 22. White House said on Thursday.

The US Ministry of Health and Welfare (HHS) enables the use of 360,000 vaccines, and the secretary person in charge of preparing and responding is the White House. said in a briefing. This is equivalent to 1.8 million times that the Food and Pharmaceutical Bureau (FDA) approved last week to administer a shot between the skin or the skin, and increased the amount of doses that can be used from the vial. 。

The number of cases in the United States is rising, with more than 13,500 reported as of August 17, and the Rochelle Wallenski Center for the U.S. Director of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,briefing. This represents him more than a third of the 39,000 cases worldwide.

The health department has a 50,000 vaccine from a strategic state stockpiling, and the health department that hosts a large -scale event that attracts the dangerous group is an existing allocation and supply. Bob said he could request an order in addition to Fenton, White House monkeypox response coordinator;

The agency is also offering his 50,000 courses of his TPOXX antiviral treatment from SIGA Technologies Inc to people who have tested positive, and state and local health departments are taking orders starting next week. He can start, Fenton said.

(Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein and Kanishka Singh; Editing by Mark Porter and Frances Kerry)

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