With global spread progressing around the United States and within North Carolina, there have been claims that a smallpox vaccine can be used to combat monkeypox. Claims regarding the effectiveness of ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania did not contain variola virus, the ...

Frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania "contain no trace of virus known to cause smallpox," federal health officials said. The ...

In the years after the Civil War, smallpox spread throughout the South, mainly infecting Black people. The story of an outbreak of a disease long since eradicated may seem remote from our own times.

Revolutionary-era smallpox, the still-mysterious ignition of the Black Death, a modern measles outbreak shaped by community identity and distrust, and the promise of genetics to build safer drugs—a ...

From eradicating smallpox to battling the COVID-19 pandemic, these vaccine pioneers have helped make colossal strides in ...

The "atomic bomb" of bioterrorism is the smallpox virus, which, if unleashed into a general population, might kill millions around the world in a few years. Such a possibility, made more real by last ...

President Bush has announced his plan to vaccinate some Americans. Both the disease and the vaccine carry serious risks. Here are the answers to some common questions about smallpox and its prevention ...

Smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases, eradicated three decades ago, is kept alive under tight security today in just two places -- the United States and Russia. Many other countries say the ...

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The last known case of smallpox in the UK was recorded in the summer of 1978, with the disease claiming the life of Janet Parker, a 40-year-old medical photographer from Birmingham SMALLPOX was once a ...