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COPENHAGEN – Denmark will provide vaccines produced by Bavarian Nordic for close contact of those infected with monkeypox, the Danish Health Authority told DR on Tuesday.
“The Health Authority will provide the vaccine to people in close contact with the infected,” director Bolette Soborg told DR.
“The vaccine will be given after it has been exposed to the infected person and is intended to reduce the risk of a serious course of the disease,” Soborg added.
It was not immediately clear whether Denmark had the vaccines in stock or whether the authorities should procure them. The Health Authority and the Ministry of Health were unable to comment immediately when Reuters contacted.
According to the World Health Organization, there have been more than 100 suspected or confirmed cases in Europe and North America of monkeypox, a disease commonly found in West and Central Africa. Denmark has reported two cases of smallpox infection during the current outbreak. (Report by Nikolaj Skydsgaard Edited by Bill Berkrot)