Minister of Health, Frank Anthony yesterday said that the vaccine which is expected to be shipped into the country to protect against monkeypox is a newly developed one known as the Modified Vaccine Ankara (MVA).
According to Anthony, studies have shown that this vaccine works more efficiently than the older one and has less of the side effects.
“The newer vaccine is called an MVA vaccine… technically it’s a modified vaccine and Ankara virus and by modifying this virus they have been able to see that when they administer it, its very protective against monkeypox, it has less of the side effects than the previous one and so this one is highly recommended”, he said.