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The most advanced treatments for monkeypox were developed to address the wrong threat

Annalisa Merelli
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The most advanced treatments for monkeypox were developed to address the wrong threat
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The markets may be in free fall, but a few biotechnology companies had an exceptionally good day. Siga’s stock is up more than 40%; Emergent Biosolutions’s gained nearly 12%, and Tonix Pharmaceuticals, 15%. A few cases of monkeypox have been registered in Europe and North America, far from West and Central Africa where outbreaks typically emerge.

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