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Congo to get Japan’s mpox vaccine for children, Africa CDC says

BY REUTERS Democratic Republic of Congo should start to receive three million doses of mpox vaccine from Japan next week that can be used on children, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday. Vaccinations against the potentially deadly infection are under way in Congo, the epicentre of the outbreak, but there have been no shots available for children, who are particularly vulnerable to mpox. Japan pledged in September to donate doses from its national stockpile of LC16m8 vaccines, first developed by local firm KM Biologics for smallpox and effective against mpox. But the donation was held up by a legal hurdle. “The good news we got from Japan is that, next week, we are […] The post Congo to get Japan’s mpox vaccine for children, Africa CDC says first appeared on 93.3 KFM.

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