On Dec. 9, 1979 — 45 years ago Monday — a commission of doctors working with the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated from the face of the Earth. The disease, which ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Frozen vials labeled “smallpox” that were recently discovered at a Pennsylvania facility contained no trace of the virus that causes the eradicated disease, according to the ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The end of smallpox vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo is responsible for some of the mpox surge ...

Dear Action Line: I saw a story in the paper recently about a smallpox scare in Lawton. Doctors were concerned that a patient had come in contact with a soldier who had been immunized for smallpox. I ...

An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...