Smallpox
Previous Smallpox Vaccination Boosts Immunogenicity of Mpox Vaccine
Immunogenicity after mpox vaccination lasted longer among people who had received a smallpox vaccination as a child ...
MAY 1, 2024
FDA Approves First Vaccine to Prevent Smallpox and Monkeypox
Despite being eradicated, smallpox is considered by many governments to be a significant bioterrorism threat, and ...
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
FDA Approves TPOXX for Smallpox Treatment
Although WHO declared smallpox—a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease—eradicated in 1980, ...
JULY 20, 2018
FDA Advisory Panel Recommends TPOXX for Smallpox Treatment
Naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated worldwide by 1980, but remaining laboratory samples raise raise ...
MAY 4, 2018
Company Requests Priority Review of Tpoxx NDA for Smallpox
SIGA Technologies submitted a New Drug Application to the FDA for its oral formulation of Tpoxx to treat smallpox. ...
DECEMBER 14, 2017
