FDA Probes Death of Boy in Brazil on Sarepta’s Elevidys

The Sarepta Therapeutics headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

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US regulators are investigating the death of an 8-year-old boy in Brazil who received Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.’s Elevidys.

The death occurred on June 7, according to a statementBloomberg Terminal from the US Food and Drug Administration, which did not specify where the boy lived.