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Britain Backs Offering Monkeypox Vaccine to At-Risk Men
Date: June 21, 2022
By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) -British authorities are recommending gay and bisexual men at higher risk of exposure to monkeypox should be offered a vaccine, as the outbreak of the viral disease gathers pace mostly in Europe. Although anyone can contract monkeypox, data from the outbreak suggests the majority of transmission is occurring within the...
PharmaLedger and Gleif Support Innovation in Global Healthcare Services by Enabling Trusted Digital Identity
Date: June 21, 2022
Consortium that supports the design and adoption of blockchain-enabled healthcare solutions to deploy digital attestation of the LEI to thus provide robust, real-time identity verification and enable fast participant onboarding at scale 21 June 2022 – Basel – A collaboration between GLEIF and PharmaLedger has resulted in the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) becoming a critical...
Pfizer to Buy 8.1 Percent Stake in French Vaccines Company Valneva
Date: June 20, 2022
PARIS (Reuters) -U.S. healthcare giant Pfizer has agreed to invest 90.5 million euros ($95.24 million) to buy an 8.1% percent stake in French vaccines company, as the companies announced developments in their partnership to tackle the Lyme disease. Pfizer will buy the stake in Valneva, which is also working on its COVID-19 vaccine, at a...
WHO Looks Into Reports of Monkeypox Virus in Semen
Date: June 15, 2022
By Natalie Grover and Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The World Health Organisation is looking into reports that the monkeypox virus is present in the semen of patients, exploring the possibility that the disease could be sexually transmitted, a WHO official said on Wednesday. Many cases in the current monkeypox outbreak, largely centred on Europe, are...
EU Signs Deal With Bavarian Nordic for Supply of 110,000 Monkeypox Vaccines
Date: June 14, 2022
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union signed on Tuesday an agreement with Bavarian Nordic for the supply of about 110,000 doses of vaccines against monkeypox, the EU Commission and the company said. The vaccines will be bought with EU funds and delivered to EU states, EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said. Doses are to be delivered...
EU Agency Sees Risk of Covid Deaths Rising as Omicron Subvariants Spread
Date: June 13, 2022
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Two new subvariants of Omicron, BA.4 and BA.5, are spreading more quickly than other corovanirus variants in Europe, which could lead to more hospitalisations and deaths as they become dominant, the EU’s disease prevention agency said on Monday. Most EU countries have so far detected low rates of the two...