In many ways, smallpox represented a natural choice for the earliest explorations into systematic vaccination because of its historical position as the greatest disease scourge of mankind.

The disease that followed was sometimes difficult, but less likely to be fatal than natural infection. Once the inoculated individual recovered, they had lifetime immunity to smallpox. Because ...

Japan approves SIGA's TEPOXX, the first antiviral for orthopoxviruses, for smallpox, mpox, cowpox, and vaccine-related complications. Approval is based on 15 clinical trials and pivotal animal ...

(RTTNews) - SIGA Technologies, Inc. (SIGA), Thursday announced that its tecovirimat 200 mg capsules, traded as TEPOXX, has secured regulatory approval in Japan for the treatment of smallpox ...

On Thursday, the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved SIGA Technologies (NASDAQ:SIGA) antiviral treatment TEPOXX (tecovirimat 200 mg capsules) for smallpox, mpox, cowpox ...