Monkeypox

Reuters reported that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to make monkeypox infection a nationally notifiable condition. The disease has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization. Related: Monkeypox Emergency Could Last...

Reuters reported that World Health Organization's (WHO) scientist advisors on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread. The cases are currently doubling every two weeks, raising concerns that the outbreak will take several months to peak. "The alarm bell was going...

As the WHO declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency, Bavarian Nordic A/S (OTC: BVNRY) obtained an expanded European label for its smallpox vaccine Imvanex, to include the surging monkeypox virus. On Saturday, WHO officially declared the outbreak a global...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak a global emergency, its highest level of alert. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said more than 16,000 cases in more than 75 countries have now been reported around the world....

The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a "positive opinion" recommending Bavarian Nordic A/S's (OTC: BVNRY) smallpox vaccine, Imvanex, be authorized to include protection against monkeypox on its label....

Here's a roundup of top developments in the biotech space over the last 24 hours: Stocks In Focus Sesen Bio To Pause Clinical Development Of Its Lead Bladder Cancer Candidate In the U.S. Based on a thorough reassessment, Sesen Bio Inc (NASDAQ: SESN) has decided to voluntarily...

Bavarian Nordic A/S (OTC: BVNRY) has signed several supply contracts with undisclosed countries for its liquid-frozen Jynneos, a non-replicating smallpox vaccine, the only FDA-approved vaccine against monkeypox. The contracts aim to ensure sufficient supply to meet the requirements...

Twist Bioscience Corp (NASDAQ: TWST) launched two human monkeypox virus synthetic DNA controls. Positive controls provide quality control measures for developing, verifying, and validating both next-generation sequencing (NGS) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays.  The...

The White House unveiled the first phase of its national monkeypox vaccine strategy, with plans to send doses to areas with confirmed outbreaks.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to distribute 296,000 doses of the Bavarian Nordic A/S's (OTC: BVNRY...

SIGA Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: SIGA) has announced approximately $13 million in procurement orders for oral TPOXX (tecovirimat) The order includes $11 million for initial procaurement from two new international jurisdictions and an approximate $2 million order from a country in the...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), started shipping monkeypox tests to five commercial laboratory companies to increase monkeypox testing capacity and access. The companies include Aegis Science, Laboratory...

European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) has ordered 110,000 doses of Bavarian Nordic A/S's (OTC: BVNRY) MVA-BN smallpox/monkeypox vaccine. Deliveries of vaccines to HERA will commence immediately and be completed during the following months. The...

The Direxion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: CURE) gapped up almost 2.52% higher on Monday in response to outbreaks of monkeypox being reported in several western nations. CURE is a triple leveraged fund that is designed to outperform 72 U.S. companies in the home health care sector. The...

As a growing number of monkeypox cases are being reported in the U.S. and Europe, President Joe Biden on Sunday said that the outbreak should concern "everybody." What Happened: The president made the remarks to reporters in South Korea before boarding Air Force One en route to Japan. He...