"Scientists and healthcare professionals must also remain alert to the similarities between smallpox symptoms and those of diseases like mpox, which have been more prevalent in recent times.

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 ...

"We can guess that it is possible after the symptoms started, that they lived with smallpox for a few weeks…because there was enough time for the bones to become severely infected," said ...

After a review of evidence, the UK Health Security Agency (HSA) said today that it no longer classifies clade 1a and 1b mpox ...

The symptoms of the plague were awful ... 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 ...