SIGA Technologies (Nasdaq: SIGA) saw its shares gain almost 8% to $14.05 today, after it announced around $28 million of procurement orders for its oral TPOXX (tecovirimat).
Oral TPOXX is approved in Canada and the USA for the treatment of smallpox but has shown efficacy in treating patients with the monkeypox virus, which is endemic in some African countries, but the incidence of which has been increasing in Europe and North America.
Danish vaccine developer Bavarian Nordic (OMX: BAVA) has also been securing contracts to supply its Imvanex smallpox vaccine in response to new cases of monkeypox evolving during May 2022.
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