Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq has been greenlit by the UK’s MHRA, allowing the single-dose vaccine to be made ...

This development comes a week after Bavarian Nordic’s vaccine Vimkunya moved closer to the European market, having received an EMA recommendation for marketing authorisation on 31 January.

The CHIKV VLP vaccine – which has the trade name Vimkunya in the EU – is also the first vaccine in the EU to protect adolescents from the age of 12 as well as adults from chikungunya ...