“We have identified a limited number of widely known organisms that could cause disease and deaths in sufficient numbers to cripple a city or region. Smallpox is one of the most serious of these ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

There have been 1,972 reported monkeypox (MPX) cases reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The most have been detected in New York (581), with more than ...

National Institutes of Health workers preparing to move a lab in Bethesda, Md., found an unwelcome surprise in a storage room this month: six vials of smallpox. There is no evidence that any of the ...

ATLANTA (AP) - A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week - decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and ...

A national survey last week revealed that huge numbers of Americans have serious misconceptions about smallpox, a deadly disease that has not occurred naturally for more than 20 years. The government ...

Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a disease caused by a virus in the same family as the smallpox virus. In the ongoing global outbreak, most cases have been linked to sexual contact between men, ...

When the virus that causes mpox jumped onto the international stage in 2022, countries around the world, including the United States, turned to vaccines targeting the closely related smallpox virus to ...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Friday he will take the smallpox vaccine along with U.S. military forces, but he is not recommending the risky inoculation for most Americans. Vaccinations for a few ...

ATLANTA, Oct. 17 -- Among members of the main scientific committee that provides advice to the federal government on the use of vaccines, there is little or no support for the idea of making smallpox ...

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