Where do you get tecovirimat?

What are treatments for smallpoxs?

Siga Technologies, of Corvallis, Oregon, has an antiviral that can cure smallpox even days after infection. It's called Tecovirimat. It's proven safe in human testing and 100 percent effective in animal testing. Recently the US Government announced that it wanted to buy Tecovirimat, but the purchase has been held up by a protest from another company, a private company called Chimerix. Tecovirimat, in fact, works against not only smallpox but all diseases in the pox virus family, including monkeypox and vaccinia (which is the close relative of Smallpox that has long been used in vaccinations). On several occasions Tecovirimat has been effective in Emergency Use when the vaccinia from vaccinations has caused open sores -- and almost killed a two year old in Chicago. Tecovirimat will soon be stockpiled all around the world as a defense against bioterror poxviruses.