(Original Caption) Smallpox in an unvaccinated child. Is it finally time to eliminate the remaining stocks of variola (smallpox) virus for good? The World Health Assembly will discuss the current ...

On Dec. 9, 1979 — 45 years ago Monday — a commission of doctors working with the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated from the face of the Earth. The disease, which ...

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined. Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until ...

Maeve Cullinan is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security desk, covering topics including infectious disease, emerging threats, humanitarian crises, conflict, and reproductive health.

It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a study to examine lessons learned from the recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and ...

The term "detection" is used here to denote identification of the virus in the environment, while "diagnosis" refers to determination that the virus or pathogen has infected a human host. The need to ...

A study published in the journal Nature Communications finds that monkeypox (MPOX) infection induces a similar anti-viral antibody response as smallpox vaccination. MPOX is a zoonotic virus belonging ...

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest pathogens. By William J. Broad In 1999, William J. Broad and two colleagues ...