Smallpox infection was often more severe in pregnant women than in non-pregnant women or in men, regardless of vaccination status. Women with smallpox infection during pregnancy have higher rates ...

Because it involved variola virus, this method became known as "variolation" and many developed immunity to smallpox with this method. However, there was a high risk of contracting the full-blown ...

Japan approves SIGA's TEPOXX, the first antiviral for orthopoxviruses, for smallpox, mpox, cowpox, and vaccine-related complications. Approval is based on 15 clinical trials and pivotal animal ...

He was an enslaved African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston. In 1721, Onesimus introduced his owner, Cotton Mather, to the variolation method of inoculation.