24hoursworld

Monkey pox: Lauterbach calls for delivery of vaccine to Berlin

Monkey pox: Lauterbach calls for delivery of vaccine to Berlin

In the fight against monkeypox, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is calling on the federal states to share their vaccines. Above all with Berlin, which is particularly affected.

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach has called on federal states with only a few cases of monkeypox to hand over vaccines to the state of Berlin. He would be happy if this vaccine “could be relocated to the focal point of Berlin, because we have a disproportionate burden here,” said the SPD politician on Friday in Berlin. There are production bottlenecks at the manufacturer.

Federal government has ordered 200,000 vaccine doses against monkeypox

Germany bought 40,000 doses of vaccine directly from the manufacturer and received around 5,000 doses from EU quotas. You got more doses than any other European country. The federal government has also ordered another 200,000 cans for Germany. These should arrive by early September at the latest. Lauterbach reported that the EU Commission had only ordered 70,000 vaccine doses for the whole of Europe.

The clinic director for infectiology at the Berlin University Hospital Charité, Leif Erik Sander, said that men who had sexual contact with other men were particularly affected. It is not yet certain how well the vaccine originally developed for smallpox protects against monkeypox. Sander advised reducing contacts.

Source: Stern

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Latest Posts