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

The eradication of smallpox, undoubtedly one of public ... work that was only possible in the second half of the 20th century. No insight is given into the nature of the field work that went ...

Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago. We have no idea how many people it has killed, but we do that in the 20th century alone it killed around 500 million people. Smallpox was ...

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 ...

In the 20th century alone, an estimated 500 million lives succumbed to smallpox, making it the sole human disease to have been eradicated. However, a new report, the Future State of Smallpox ...

PENGUIN PRESS, MARCH 2011 O ur skins record the histories of life’s close scrapes. One of the most common marks that humans carry is, we hope, bound for extinction: the nickel-sized cicatrix left by a ...

A smallpox epidemic killed between 5 and 8 million of the native population in the following two years. Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable ...

century painting by John Trumbull. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) General Washington, who had survived smallpox as a young man, was aware of this ...