Bavarian Nordic, the small Danish laboratory manufacturing the only monkeypox vaccine

At the headquarters of Bavarian Nordic, near Copenhagen, the activity has never been so intense. Since July, the World Health Organization (WHO) called the monkeypox epidemic of “public health emergency of international concern”, its highest level of alert, orders are pouring in from all over the world. The small Danish biotech is in fact the only supplier in the world of the vaccine against this disease. Vaccine of 3^e generation, it is safer than its predecessors, and “85% effective against monkey poxexplains Rolf Sass Sorensen, Vice President of Bavarian Nordic. This means that 85 people vaccinated out of 100 will be protected against the disease. We also tested it in Africa.”

Bavarian Nordic, which employs 850 people, plans to deliver at least 2 million doses this year. “Luckily we had them in stock when the outbreak started in May.says Rolf Sass Sorensen. But this is not enough to meet the explosion in demand. Some…