When Dr William Foege died earlier this month, the world mourned the loss of a scientist who helped rid humanity of a virus that had plagued the Earth for thousands of years.

The remarkable “bush-telegraph” would have immediately alerted Samburu tribes-people of our arrival in their vicinity. The speedy word-of-mouth system had already spread news throughout northern Kenya ...

It is the first time we can trace these early smallpox viruses and compare their genomes and mutations and see how the disease evolved over time," says Eske Willerslev. Catalogue of Mutations Even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monkeypox has spread to more than a dozen countries including several in Europe, the US, and Canada. The smallpox vaccine is 85% ...

When Covid-19 struck, humanity faced an out-of-control outbreak without vaccines or therapies. If it were a knife fight, we brought a crayon. The level of preparedness for monkeypox couldn’t be more ...

It has been more than 30 years since routine smallpox vaccinations stopped in the United States. The last U.S. smallpox case occurred in 1949. And the last known case of smallpox in the world was in ...