(Original Caption) Smallpox in an unvaccinated child. Is it finally time to eliminate the remaining stocks of variola (smallpox) virus for good? The World Health Assembly will discuss the current ...

Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional. The posts were ...

ATLANTA – A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week – decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in ...

It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A virus closely related to smallpox disguises itself as a piece of a broken cell to trick its way into cells, Swiss researchers said on Thursday in a discovery that could lead to ...

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic ...

Vaccines that prevent smallpox and mpox come in two varieties. One uses a single shot of a live virus but carries the risk of serious side effects; the other, which is newer and made with replication ...

Irish-born painter Thomas Hickey's painting in 1806 of three queens of Mysore where the royal woman on the right is pulling up her sari to spread awareness about small-pox vaccination. Photo: PRIVATE ...

Smallpox is a deadly virus. It's been around at least since the third century BCE in the Egyptian empire. At one point, it killed almost one in three people who had it. And in the 20th century alone, ...

LOS ANGELES -- Fearing a bioterrorism attack that spreads smallpox, hospitals here have already designated certain elevators and hallways for transporting victims as well as wards for isolating and ...