In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of Covid-19 where wealthy nations have advantage


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Moves by wealthy countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning. Critics fear a repeat of the catastrophic inequity problems seen during the coronavirus pandemic. “The mistakes we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic are already being repeated,” said Dr Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US. While rich countries have ordered millions of vaccines to stop monkeypox...