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Denmark gets monkeypox vaccines from the Netherlands, aims to buy more

FILE PHOTO: An employee works on a vaccine based on the monkeypox vaccine that has already been developed by the vaccine company Bavarian Nordic at a laboratory of the company in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, May 24, 2022. REUTERS/Lukas Barth

Denmark will receive 200 monkeypox vaccines from the Netherlands this week and is working on buying thousands more, as the country mulls vaccinating close contacts of those infected with the disease, its health minister said on Wednesday.

"On Friday, we will receive 200 vaccines against monkey pox in a collaboration with the Dutch government," Health Minister Magnus Heunicke told public broadcaster DR.

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