A lethal new virus which kills humans has been developed by scientists ... Their research brings closer the prospect of pox viruses being turned into lethal new diseases even when people have ...

While variolation could lead to further transmission of live pox virus and itself was occasionally ... pustular material from a cowpox lesion in a human (Sarah Nelmes, the author informs us ...

Since then, only seven human cases have been recorded. Patients can develop skin lesions like pustules, swollen lymph nodes and joint or muscle pain. Last month, the virus claimed its first victim ...

Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease that only affects a person once in their lifetime Only in rare cases can people ...

Blood, pharyngeal secretions and vesicle fluid were obtained and inoculated immediately into cultures of human-amnion cells. Varicella virus was isolated from the pharyngeal secretions and vesicle ...

A third case of mpox in the United States, formerly known as monkeypox, has been found in New Hampshire. Here's what to know.

Alaskapox, or AKPV, is a double-stranded DNA virus first discovered in 2015 ... a role," said the Alaska Health Department. Although "human-to-human transmission of AKPV has not yet been observed ...

The chickenpox vaccine contains a weakened version of the live chickenpox virus, also called the varicella zoster virus. This means there’s a very small chance of getting chickenpox from the ...

A New Hampshire resident has been diagnosed with clade I mpox, one of two types of the virus formerly called monkeypox, ...