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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

UK will ‘run out of monkeypox vaccine in 10 to 20 days’

Doctors warn of a UK shortage of doses of Imvanex, a vaccine to protect against monkeypox.
Doctors warn of a UK shortage of doses of Imvanex, a vaccine to protect against monkeypox. Photograph: François Lo Presti/AFP/Getty Images

The UK will run out of the monkeypox vaccine despite having one of the biggest number of cases worldwide, triggering warnings that the illness could become endemic.

The country looks likely to exhaust stocks of the vaccine in the next two to three weeks, and then face a delay of almost a month before the next supplies arrive in late September.

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