The early histories of smallpox and measles - and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine - will be ...

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined. Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until ...

As so many people around the globe contemplate what their lives might look like after the pandemic, new research on smallpox might help provide insight. Researchers revealed nearly three centuries of ...

Oct. 19 -- Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases ever to afflict the human race, until a worldwide effort succeeded in eradicating it from the planet 25 years ago. But the events of the past few ...

During the current anthrax scare, a report on the radio about various bioterrorism agents said the smallpox virus was a particularly nasty pathogen. I looked down at the smallpox vaccination scar on ...

A vaccine that is intended to save countless lives. Parents suspicious of the shots, terrified of what the vaccine will do to their children. The government insisting on vaccinations for the general ...

The headlines are familiar. The availability of new vaccines to combat a deadly disease has prompted a global effort to jab as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. But it’s difficult to ...

In a recent study published in the official journal of the Spanish Society of Chemotherapy, researchers assessed the existing information regarding monkeypox infections. Study: Monkeypox in humans: a ...

Older people who received smallpox vaccinations may yet have some immunity, researchers say. Healthy children and adults generally do not become severely ill. By Apoorva Mandavilli For a world weary ...

As so many people around the globe contemplate what their lives might look like after the pandemic, new research on smallpox might help provide insight. Researchers revealed nearly three centuries of ...