[LucyT]

Content current as of:

06/04/2021

Smallpox Preparedness and Response Updates from FDA

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-issues/smallpox-preparedness-and-response-updates-fda

[LucyT]

June 3, 2021:

FDA approves drug to treat smallpox - FDA 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.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping LT.

In the town square here in Jackson Hole, Wyoming there is a tribute to Space Force branch of the US Air Force.

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