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The European Union will sign an agreement with an undisclosed manufacturer on Tuesday for the supply of about 110,000 doses of vaccines against monkeypox to be delivered from the end of June, EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said.

On the sidelines of a meeting of EU health ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday, Ms Kyriakides said the vaccines will be bought with EU funds and delivered to EU states.

Commission officials said the name of the vaccine maker will be unveiled shortly.

The bloc's drug regulator said this month it was in talks with Danish biotech firm Bavarian Nordic over trial data that could underpin an extension of the approved use of the Imvanex shot, known as Jynneosin the United States, beyond smallpox to include monkeypox.

The US regulator has approved Bavarian's smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox.

Some EU states, including Germany and Spain, have made their own orders for monkeypox vaccines.

Ms Kyriakides said the EU had recorded 900 cases of monkeypox.

There are confirmed cases in 24 different countries across Europe.

There have been 34 countries in which monkeypox is not endemic that have reported outbreaks of the viral disease, with the total number of confirmed cases approaching1,500.

Monkeypox is making headlines because it is spreading in an unusual manner.

Australia has recorded eight case of monkeypox so far.

The WHO said the monkeypox outbreak outside Africa would not lead to a pandemic, but it was considering whether the outbreak should be assessed as a "potential public health emergency of international concern".

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