Forbes August 16, 2024
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Shares for mpox vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic continued to surge on Friday after the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency over an escalating outbreak of the disease in Africa, part of a wider rally for linked health stocks as nations mobilize to combat the virus and the company seeks approval to use the shot in adolescents.
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Why Can’t Emergent Biosolution’s Smallpox Vaccine Be Used?
Emergent’s ACAM2000 is designed for use against smallpox. Smallpox, or variola, is one of the deadliest pathogens to have struck humanity—in the best of cases, around a third of patients with smallpox would die and some versions were almost always fatal—and one of history’s biggest killers. It is the only human...
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