FDA en­dors­es Bavar­i­an Nordic's mon­key­pox vac­cine, mark­ing world's first ap­proval

In 2003, sci­en­tists traced the mon­key­pox virus to a pa­tient’s pet prairie dog in Marsh­field, Wis­con­sin. Al­to­geth­er, forty-sev­en con­firmed and prob­a­ble cas­es of mon­key­pox were re­port­ed from six US states — mark­ing the first in­stance that an out­break was record­ed out­side of Africa, af­ter a ship­ment of 800 small mam­mals from Ghana were im­port­ed to Texas. On Tues­day, the first vac­cine for the dis­ease — which can be fa­tal — was ap­proved by the FDA.

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