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Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health, stated on June 14 that she had signed an agreement on behalf of member states to purchase around 110,000 doses of a monkeypox vaccine. The European Commission has purchased third-generation smallpox vaccines that are effective against the monkeypox virus through the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) and the EU4Health mechanism. The first vaccine deliveries are scheduled for the end of June.