Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with patient zero for mpox back in 1970.

Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a ...

George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan. George Washington strikes a confident pose after the victorious Battle of Princeton in this ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says that action is needed to enhance U.S. readiness for smallpox and related diseases, as well as to ...

According to the Epidemiological Reports of the World Health Organization, 21 cases of smallpox occurred in Liége during this outbreak. 3 During the first half of 1947, 79 cases of smallpox ...

Researchers studying a smallpox outbreak in Yugoslavia in 1972 in which 175 were infected and 35 died found that 105 people, or 60% of those infected, were previously vaccinated for smallpox.

A March 2024 report from the National Academy of Science and Medicine on current preparedness efforts for a smallpox outbreak did not weigh in on whether or not the virus should be destroyed.

Scientists speculate that the end of widespread smallpox vaccination in the 1970s may have contributed to today’s outbreak. “Since smallpox vaccination was stopped, the frequency and size of ...

Wealthy countries with millions of smallpox vaccines stockpiled for national security should urgently donate more doses to African countries battling the latest outbreak of mpox, the World Health ...

During smallpox outbreaks milkmaids’ families would fall ill, but the milkmaids themselves, if they had had cowpox, were spared. Signs of Smallpox.

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases ...