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- The European Commission has approved a smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox.
- Imvanex has been approved in the EU since 2013 for the prevention of smallpox.
- It is considered a potential vaccine for monkeypox because of the similarity between the monkeypox virus and the smallpox virus.
- Monkeypox is less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980.
- Recently, WHO declared the monkeypox outbreak as a global health emergency.
- It has affected nearly 16,000 people in 72 countries.
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