Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest ...

In the optimistic missive, Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare ...

Smallpox, a disease that killed an estimated 500 million people in the 20th century alone, is the only human disease to be eradicated. However, a new report, "Future State of Smallpox Medical ...

Smallpox is a viral, infectious disease that once terrorized us humans. It causes a significant skin rash and fever, and during the most rampant outbreaks in the 20th century, killed an estimated ...

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View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Thanks to a Cold War-era division of responsibility, smallpox has been held in just two places in the world since 1984: at the CDC labs in ...

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late 1970s, which means there is no immunity in the population as a whole. So what is the history of Smallpox? • The first known victim of smallpox was ...

Researchers review the ever-growing list of human viruses, examining their diversity, transmission pathways, and the urgent ...

To win American independence, he not only had to defeat the British army; he had to defeat smallpox. At the time, 90% of deaths in the Continental Army were due to disease. Smallpox was so feared ...

Today there is mounting concern about the threat of a bioterrorist attack using smallpox—so much concern that in October 2001 the American government decided to order enough vaccine to protect ...

Over 100 smallpox-infected monkeys have escaped from treatment centres in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a ...

Symptoms of monkeypox can also be compared with smallpox — a related virus that was declared eradicated in 1980. Like smallpox, monkeypox causes pus-filled boils. But monkeypox is generally ...