Monkeypox virus sickened about 70 people. The cause was traced to prairie dogs that had been infected by imported African rodents at a pet distribution center. Fortunately, this disease was not as ...

Cultures were colliding in Natchez when suddenly, a few of the residents of the area developed smallpox. Only a few people ...

They caused empires to fall and new ones to arise. 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 ...

Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another virus that is similar to the smallpox virus, yet different enough not to bring on the smallpox disease once it enters your body.

Cotton Mather was an early advocate of inoculation, but many clergy members preached that smallpox was God’s punishment for sin. Therefore, inoculation interfered with God's will. Other people ...

Cultures were colliding in Natchez when suddenly, a few of the residents of the area developed smallpox. Only a few people ...

Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the ...

Health officials around the world have urged people to be alert to monkeypox ... Symptoms of monkeypox can also be compared with smallpox — a related virus that was declared eradicated in ...

It can also be spread through the air. In 430 B.C., smallpox killed more than 30,000 people in Athens, Greece, reducing the city’s population by at least 20%. There were approximately 25 million ...

Smallpox has a fearsome reputation, having killed more people in history than any other infectious disease. It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an ...