(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

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Maeve Cullinan is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security desk, covering topics including infectious disease, emerging threats, humanitarian crises, conflict, and reproductive health.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In a year when one presidential candidate endorses vaccines, another is ambivalent and a third is staunchly opposed, it’s worth ...