[Global occurring] The United States approves the internal injection of monkey acne vaccine to increase the supply of vaccine

China Daily, August 10th. According to Reuters, a few days ago, the United States and the World Health Organization announced that monkey acne epidemic was an emergency of public health.On August 9th local time, the US Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of the injection of monkey acne vaccines in adults, that is, injecting between the skin layers instead of subcutaneous, in order to deal with insufficient vaccine supply.

US health officials said at the White House press conference that this change will increase the current vaccine supply five times because of the same protection, the dose required for internal injection is small.Dartment of Health and Human Services, the assistant minister Dawn O'Connell, who is responsible for preventing and responding, said that there are currently 441,000 vaccines in national strategic reserves. According to the new regulations, follow the new regulations.A new batch of vaccines will be available for inoculation of about 2 million people.

According to statistics from the US Disease Control and Prevention Center, as of the 9th local time, there were 9,493 cases of diagnosed monkey acne cases in the United States, and 30,189 cases of confirmed cases in the world.

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