As governments contend with post-Covid fatigue, tighter public health budgets and uneven vaccine uptake, concern is shifting ...

In a groundbreaking new study, a team of researchers from South Dakota State University—led by associate professor Saikat ...

DEADLY smallpox, which claimed the lives of an estimated 500 million people in the 20th century, could help trigger the next ...

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.

Viruses belonging to the Orthopoxvirus family could potentially take the place of smallpox and spark a new global outbreak.

A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Jonas Albarnaz, a senior virologist at the Pirbright Institute, told The Telegraph: “Public health experts predicted before eradication that other orthopoxviruses could ‘occupy’ the niche vacated ...

Well, this is disconcerting. According to an announcement today from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), vials of the smallpox virus were found in a lab in Maryland that was not only unapproved ...