Google searches for "smallpox vaccine" have rocketed since monkeypox cases started turning up in people across Europe and North America who have no recent travel history to Africa. The search ...

Symptoms of monkeypox can also be compared with smallpox — a related virus that was declared eradicated in 1980. Like smallpox, monkeypox causes pus-filled boils. But monkeypox is generally ...

“Monkeypox is related to smallpox but with two important differences: it spreads between people much less easily than smallpox, and it generally causes much milder illness,” says Jonathan ...

WHO Smallpox Secretariat head Dr. Rosamund Lewis said GENEVA, May 30. /TASS/. The fast spread of monkeypox in non-endemic states may be connected to the lack of immunity for this disease in the ...

Rimoin has been studying monkeypox, a less-virulent relative of smallpox, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for two decades. In 2010, she coauthored a study showing that incidence rates ...

Monkeypox is a viral disease causing fever, rash, and swollen lymph nodes, spreading through close contact.

Similarly, these smallpox samples have no relevance to any research on the current monkeypox outbreak. Furthermore, holding onto stocks of smallpox doesn’t work as a deterrent. Through the Biological ...

MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Mass vaccination against smallpox staged in Russia earlier helped to develop herd immunity enough to prevent the spread of monkeypox, Russia’s sanitary watchdog said on ...

Wealthier countries are responding to the monkeypox outbreak by ordering more smallpox vaccines than they require, risking a reprise of the vaccine inequality seen during the Covid-19 pandemic.