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 ...

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 ...

The problem is not how much we talk about historical genocide, but how little rigorous historical research is used by those who support it.

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 ...

Dr. Zhilong Yang, an associate professor in the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, served on a national committee that studied the threat of a new smallpox outbreak.

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 ...

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 ...