Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Keesby.

The World Health Organization is warning richer countries not to stockpile supplies of the

MPOC vaccine as fears grow that the virus will continue to spread. This week the

WHO declared it a global public health emergency and yesterday Sweden became the first non-African country to register a case.

Pakistan also says it's found cases. The important thing to remember is that most people will recover

from empox which causes flu-like symptoms in a nasty rash but for some who are vulnerable

or with underlying health conditions such as untreated HIV

empox can become more dangerous and even fatal.

The WHO says there's no need to panic just yet, but that we should learn lessons from the

COVID pandemic in terms of containing the spread.

While at the moment there's no cure for Mpox, the good news is that we already have a vaccine that works.

I've been speaking to the CEO of Bavarian Nordic which makes one of the two vaccines

recommended by the WHO he's Paul Chaplin.

The vaccine that we have we initially developed for a smallpox vaccine together with the US government.

Just to clarify then it should be totally effective against these variants that we know about.

Yes. So in 22-23 we distributed more than 15 million doses in that outbreak

and it was shown up to be 80% effective with one vaccination and up to 90%

with two vaccinations. And where are your current orders coming from because we hear from the World Health

Organization today that it's worried that richer countries are going to start

trying to stockpile these vaccines?

Well, currently we've only received one request, which was Hera, which is the EU.

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