The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, Aug. 24, announced that it requested 2,000 doses of mpox vaccine after detecting a new case of the viral disease in the country this year. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN/ FILE PHOTO) In a Teleradyo Serbisyo interview, DOH Secretary Teodoro J. Herbosa...
A vaccine proven effective against the mpox virus is available abroad but not yet in the Philippines, a vaccine expert said on Thursday, Aug. 22. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “Meron po tayong bakuna [para sa mpox] pero hindi iyan available sa atin (We do have a vaccine [for...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark's Bavarian Nordic, the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, said Thursday it had signed a deal to supply European nations with up to two million doses of the jab. A joint procurement agreement was penned with the European Commission's...