NanoViricides, Inc. (NYSE:NNVC) (the "Company"), a clinical stage global leader in broad-spectrum antiviral nanomedicines, reports today that it is investigating the possibility of using NV-387 for the treatment of MPOX patients under the WHO MEURI protocol, in light of the recent WHO PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) declaration for the current 2024 MPOX outbreak that is rapidly spreading into more than ten countries in Africa with additional cases detected in Thailand and Sweden.

MEURI, i.e. Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Investigational Interventions, is an ethical protocol developed by the World Health Organization to evaluate the potential use of experimental drugs in the event of public health emergencies ().

The Company believes that the MEURI protocol may be applicable for the evaluation of NV-387 for the treatment of MPOX infection in patients. NV-387 has completed Phase I clinical trial for safety and tolerability studies in healthy subjects with no adverse events reported indicating excellent safety and tolerability. NV-387 has demonstrated strong improvement in survival in animal model studies matching that of the currently approved drug, tecovirimat, indicating excellent effectiveness. MPOX Clade 1/1b require development of new therapeutics due to limitations of existing therapies.

Additionally, the Company has also found that NV-387 was superior to or equivalent to existing drugs in non-clinical animal trials in the case of three major classes of respiratory viruses: RSV, Influenza, and COVID; the so-called "triple-demic" respiratory viruses. The Company believes that NV-387, as a single broad-spectrum antiviral drug that can treat a large number of viruses, could be as revolutionary for the treatment of viral infections as penicillin was to bacterial infections, when its effectiveness is proven in human clinical trials.