The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first drug intended to treat smallpox — a move that could halt a lethal pandemic if the virus were to be released as a terrorist bioweapon or ...
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A federal initiative launched in 2003 to vaccinate healthcare workers against smallpox reached only a fraction of the people it sought. But veterans of the effort say elements of the Bush ...
Three years ago, a biology lesson about smallpox would likely have centered on health officials’ boast that a worldwide campaign had eradicated the longtime scourge. And a classroom lesson about ...
Two decades after smallpox was eradicated, a Danish drug company with Triangle ties began developing a new vaccine against the virus. A slew of anthrax attacks in the United States had intensified ...
With the threat of bioterrorism looming over the nation, many Americans are wondering whether smallpox will infect them after a 53-year absence from the nation's scene. Eileen O'Neill, a mass ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Chimerix's brincidofovir (BCV, Tembexa) to treat smallpox. Fearful of a possible bioweapon attack, the United States has been steadily preparing ...
Frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania "contain no trace of virus known to cause smallpox," federal health officials said. The ...
A laboratory worker in Pennsylvania found several vials labeled “smallpox” at a facility dedicated to vaccine research and development, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ...