FDA Approves First Smallpox-Indicated Treatment, SIGA's TPOXX

The FDA today approved the first drug indicated for smallpox, SIGA Technologies’ TPOXX® (tecovirimat), which was developed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).TPOXX is a small molecule antiviral therapy designed to mitigate the impact of a potential outbreak of smallpox. While the disease was declared to have been eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980, the U.S. and other nations have p