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Spain to donate 500,000 mpox vaccine doses to combat outbreak in Africa

Spain will donate 500,000 pox vaccine doses to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

Spain has notified the European Commission that it will donate 20% of its stock of the vaccine, or 100,000 vials, which would provide 500,000 doses.

The World Health Organization has declared mpox a global public health emergency, after an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo spread to neighboring countries and a new form of the virus, clade Ib, triggered concerns about the speed of transmission.