Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also ...

First-generation smallpox vaccines have a long, distinguished track record of effectiveness in the control and subsequent eradication of naturally occurring smallpox. However, their utility in the ...

The total number of lives saved since the first vaccines is mindboggling, well over a billion globally and perhaps two ...

There have been 1,972 reported monkeypox (MPX) cases reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The most have been detected in New York (581), with more than ...

A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Louisiana Purchase was still two years ...

A study published in the journal Nature Communications finds that monkeypox (MPOX) infection induces a similar anti-viral antibody response as smallpox vaccination. MPOX is a zoonotic virus belonging ...

Claiborne had just been appointed to his position by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, and at the time the Mississippi Territory was surrounded by French and Spanish empires. The Mississippi Territory ...

Dec. 11 -- The administration's smallpox program will not endorse compulsory vaccinations for all Americans, President Bush told ABCNEWS' Barbara Walters. "The need for this government to provide the ...

Explore why tetanus, unlike other diseases, evades eradication due to its unique environmental persistence and immunity ...

Expert Rev Vaccines. 2008;7(8):1225-1237. Although no statistically significant differences were observed in the rates of myopericarditis between those who received ACAM2000 versus Dryvax, the Phase ...