And the FDA just approved a new Pfizer drug to treat monkeypox. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
The FDA just expanded the use of TPOXX to include monkeypox as on label use. TPOXX was fully approved four years ago to treat smallpox. So it’s not a new approval only an expansion of on label use. This makes sense since the original smallpox vaccine also prevents and if given soon enough after exposure will treat monkeypox too they are very close in the evolutionary tree.
Also of note monkey pox is not from monkeys it’s from rodents that infected monkey’s which then jumped via them to humans. The last outbreak in the USA was due to rats being imported to the USA which infected prairie dogs that then became exotic pets and infected their new owners. You don’t get monkeypox from humping a monkey you get it from being in contact with an infected monkeys fur,blood,saliva,urine,or fecal matter. Same for the source rodents who are believed to be the source reservoir for the endemic virus in West / central Africa