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A Danish pharma giant with the only approved mpox jab in the US and Europe has done a deal to make 440,000 vaccines. Bavarian Nordic's shares surged after stronger-than expected earnings, in another success story for a Danish drugmaker following the triumph of Novo Nordisk, maker of weightloss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic.

Call it callous. Call it macabre. To most of us, pandemics are human tragedies, like wars or natural disasters. The outbreak of mpox in Africa is a case in point. Shares shot up in pharma and biotech companies thought likely to benefit from the demand for vaccines and diagnostic kits.

A case of monkeypox in a child under four years old has been reported in Martin County, Florida, the first such occurrence in the state and seventh in the United States overall. Experts have warned that these young children are at a greater risk of severe infection or death from the virus. According to one expert, more of these outbreaks are likely to develop into a full fledged pandemic.

Both state and federal officials are blaming poor planning and logistics from the federal government for the difficulties in the country's monkeypox vaccination rollout. According to them, the ordering system used to order shots is clunky, and leaves them no way to monitor their shipment or when it will arrive. Delivery locations for geographically large states such as California and Texas are also limited, making it even more difficult for geographically large states such as California and Texas. Sometimes shots are not even delivered in the correct area. On Friday, the United States welcomed 419 cases to the leadger, raising the world's largest outbreak of the virus to 11,177 infections.

monkeypox could be the world's next pandemic, according to one expert, with around 30,000 cases recorded in the United States alone, home to the world's biggest outbreak.

After another 900 infections were added to the lead, America is now the world's only country with 10,000 monkeypox cases, reaching 10,392 on Wednesday. According to statistics, the United States accounts for just over a third of the global case count. Officials are scrambling to react to the surge, particularly in the face of a vaccine shortage. Each jab will be divided into fifths and deliver the shots intradermally, according to plans to rethink the monkeypox vaccine response. There is no evidence that backs this method.