More than four decades after smallpox was eradicated, scientists are reassessing the legacy of that public health triumph.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, circa 1820 - Hulton Archive/Getty Images When Dr William Foege died earlier this month, ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a study to examine lessons learned from the recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and ...

Against measles’ 12-18, smallpox – one of the most feared and deadliest diseases humanity faced, until it was eradicated – had an R 0 of 5-7. Polio is about the same, while the Ebola virus that caused ...

William Foege, a leader of one of humanity’s greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died. Foege died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89, according to the Task ...

In a groundbreaking new study, a team of researchers from South Dakota State University—led by associate professor Saikat ...

The vaccine has been successfully tested on animals by a team at the University of Stanford and is now moving onto human trials.