Three years later, in 2019, they unearthed another Inca toddler afflicted with smallpox. The Spanish built the cemetery between 1535 and 1540. It features 120 burials from the early days of their ...

Smallpox is a viral, infectious disease that once terrorized us humans. It causes a significant skin rash and fever, and during the most rampant outbreaks in the 20th century, killed an estimated ...

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 ...

Today there is mounting concern about the threat of a bioterrorist attack using smallpox—so much concern that in October 2001 the American government decided to order enough vaccine to protect ...

People did notice, however, that once someone had survived smallpox, they never got it again. So, in the 10th century, people in China began taking some pus from the infected blisters and ...

Peter H Gilligan, Ph.D., D(ABMM) emeritus and F(AAM) was a medical microbiologist at UNC Health for 35 years. Here, he ...