Smallpox "pest houses" filled up during early epidemics, but vaccines and progress put an end to that.

Made from synthesized horsepox, it's believed to be a virtual clone of the original 1796 smallpox vaccine which developed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas. Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases in ...

Smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been eradicated worldwide. Researchers have now recovered fragments of ancient DNA belonging to variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox, ...

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Historians have long suspected European colonists brought the smallpox-causing Orthopoxvirus variola virus to the Americas, where it decimated Indigenous populations. Now, scientists say they have ...

Smallpox devastated Australia’s Aboriginal communities in the late 18th century, not long after British colonists stepped foot on the continent. But historians have long debated how the disease ...

Physician Brendan Phibbs, who wrote “The Other Side of Time: A Combat Surgeon in World War II,” said, “It is a merciful God that doesn’t let us see the future.” But we all have dreams for that future, ...

On May 8, 1980, the WHO declared the eradication of smallpox. An infectious disease that had plagued humanity for thousands ...

This week Kriti from Microbe Matters and I are teaming up to cover Smallpox because of a paper published on May 1st regarding what to do with the remaining smallpox stockpiles. I will be focusing on ...

Smallpox came to San Antonio in waves, resulting in isolation of patients. Medicine-show performer "Diamond King" was one who succumbed to the disease.