Smallpox vaccine, drug makers rise as WHO to decide on monkeypox 'emergency'

Chimerix

23/06/2022 11:57

** Shares of U.S. smallpox vaccine and drugmakers rise
premarket ahead of World Health Organization meeting on Thursday
to decide whether to declare monkeypox a global health emergency
    ** A "public health emergency of international concern" is
WHO's highest level of alert  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2YA0FN
    ** Emergent BioSolutions  EBS.N , maker of smallpox vaccine
ACAM2000, jumps 2.9% to $31.06
    ** Chimerix  CMRX.O  rises 1.8% to $1.65 and SIGA
Technologies Inc  SIGA.O  2.4% to $12.75
    ** Case count from the current outbreak of the viral disease
outside of Africa has topped 3,000 in more than 40 countries -
Reuters tally  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N2XF1XF
    ** CMRX, EBS down ~75% and ~31% YTD respectively while SIGA
is up ~76%

 (Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru)
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