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Josh Salisbury

Monkeypox: NHS to pilot giving smaller vaccine doses amid global shortage of jabs

File of person being administered a monkeypox vaccine (PA)

(Picture: PA Wire)

The NHS will pilot giving smaller doses of monkeypox vaccines in a bid to combat shortages, health officials have announced.

The UK Health Security Agency said the approach has been shown to give “near identical” protection as giving bigger doses and has been approved worldwide, including in the EU, US and UK.

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