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.

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.

The chairperson of the Rizomylos Agricultural Association, Mr Theocharis Seskliotis, said that after the floods, smallpox ...

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 ...

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

By the end of the smallpox epidemic in Montreal in 1886, more than 3,200 people had died from the disease. The city lost almost 2 percent of its total population in 1885 alone, and more than 3 ...

At the end of the 20th century, a historian named Ward L. Churchill claimed that the smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838, which wiped out tens of thousands of Indigenous Americans in North Dakota, ...

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