Throughout history, the deadliest disease outbreaks and pandemics have decimated societies, killing millions. From the Black Death to Covid-19, these outbreaks have changed societies forever. Five ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

yet other virus infections should be ruled out, including herpes simplex, enteroviruses, and smallpox. The lesions often vesiculate and then umbilicate, but the rash is usually self-limited and ...

NIH-sponsored trial data offers further evidence to help inform mpox treatment decisions.

No insight is given into the nature of the field work that went into making large countries in Africa and Asia smallpox-free, and especially into the critical strategies of disease surveillance ...

Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago ... This allowed the body to learn the virus’ code and build immunity to defeat it. In 1798, an British doctor, Edward Jenner, developed a vaccine.

In Europe, ten people died from measles in 2024, and the US has had several major outbreaks. Bird flu has affected dairy ...

On this day in history, March 4, 1754, Benjamin Waterhouse, a pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, was born in Newport, Rhode ...

Although smallpox is considered a disease of the past, there is current heightened international concern regarding the potential use of smallpox virus as an agent for bioterrorism. Smallpox is ...

The antiviral drug tecovirimat used without other antivirals did not reduce the time to clinical resolution of clade II mpox ...