{"id":78564,"date":"2018-05-10T02:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/the-first-smallpox-treatment-is-one-step-closer-to-fda-approval"},"modified":"2018-05-10T02:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:22:58","slug":"the-first-smallpox-treatment-is-one-step-closer-to-fda-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/the-first-smallpox-treatment-is-one-step-closer-to-fda-approval","title":{"rendered":"The first smallpox treatment is one step closer to FDA approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-smallpox-treatment-is-one-step-closer-to-fda-approval2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upcoming anti-viral medication for smallpox\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As bioterrorism fears grow, the first treatment for smallpox is nearing approval.<\/p>\n<p>Called tecovirimat, the drug stops the variola virus, which causes smallpox, from sending out copies of itself and infecting other cells. \u201cIf the virus gets ahead of your immune system, you get sick,\u201d says Dennis Hruby, the chief scientific officer of pharmaceutical company SIGA Technologies, which took part in developing the drug. \u201cIf you can slow the virus down, your immune system will get ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/downloads\/AdvisoryCommittees\/CommitteesMeetingMaterials\/Drugs\/Anti-InfectiveDrugsAdvisoryCommittee\/UCM605888.pdf\">unanimously recommended approval<\/a> of tecovirimat, or TPOXX, on May 1. The FDA is expected to make its decision this summer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/first-smallpox-treatment-one-step-closer-fda-approval?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2\">https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/first-smallpox-treatment...sletter-v2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming anti-viral medication for smallpox\u2026 As bioterrorism fears grow, the first treatment for smallpox is nearing approval. Called tecovirimat, the drug stops the variola virus, which causes smallpox, from sending out copies of itself and infecting other cells. \u201cIf the virus gets ahead of your immune system, you get sick,\u201d says Dennis Hruby, the chief [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}