Smallpox drug, Tembexa, receives FDA approval
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By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday approved Tembexa (brincidofovir) to treat smallpox. Although the World Health Organization declared smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease, eradicated in 1980, there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be used as a bioweapon. Before its eradication [...]
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