(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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

A 1903 article from the St. Paul Globe is getting a new look because it tells the timeless tale of an anti-vaxxer who died of a contagious infection about which he was skeptical. In this case, the ...

ATLANTA -- A U.S. soldier's wife who was accidentally exposed to the live virus in the smallpox vaccine likely passed it on to her baby through breast-feeding, according to military authorities. The ...

This year it’s COVID-19. But years ago, particularly among Native Americans, the feared disease was smallpox. Bernie Webb, formerly of Carrington, N.D., and now of Gettysburg, S.D., sent a report ...