News Forum - Thailand to import smallpox vaccines from US this month

[Thaiger]

Thailand expects 1,000 doses of the smallpox vaccine to arrive in the kingdom from the US by the end of this month. But the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) said that the vaccines would be made available to only the most vulnerable groups of people in Thailand. The Director-General of the Disease Control Department, Opas Karnkawinpong, yesterday said that monkeypox vaccines haven’t been developed anywhere for years but the US has a supply of the serum that was developed by the US Food and Drugs Administration in 2019 and approved by the World Health Organisation. Opas reported that the MOPH […]

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