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ICMR invites EoIs for developing monkeypox vaccine

Bhaskarlive | 28/07/2022 08:36 AM | Click to read full article

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday invited expressions of interest (EoIs) from vaccine makers for developing indigenous vaccines and diagnostic kits for monkeypox in the public-private-partnership mode.

Earlier in the day, ICMR’s National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, isolated the monkeypox virus strain from the samples of an infected patient. 

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