MSD suspends vaccines supplies to Russia

9 July 2022

US pharma giant Merck & Co (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the USA and Canada, has stopped its supplies of vaccines against chickenpox, rubella, measles and mumps to Russia but will continue sales of its drugs that do not have Russian analogues, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent.

According to Russian Kommersant business paper, MSD sent out notices to its partners in Russia about termination of supplies of varicella vaccines (Varivax), as well as vaccines against measles, rubella, and mumps (M-M-R II) to Russia.

Back in 2019, MSD agreed on the localization of production for vaccines against chicken pox, rotavirus infection (RotaTeq) and human papilloma virus (Gardasil) at the Forta site of the Russian company Nacimbio. Earlier, representatives of Nacimbio said that the work with MSD on the project has been stopped, and the capacities of the Fort site are being used for the production of seasonal vaccines.

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