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

It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

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 ...

H. Foege, a former CDC director who helped eradicate smallpox and whose health work saved millions of lives, died Saturday in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. William Foege, a leader of one of humanity’s greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died.

This year it’s COVID-19. But years ago, particularly among Native Americans, the feared disease was smallpox. Bernie Webb, formerly of Carrington, N.D., and now of Gettysburg, S.D., sent a report ...

An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE:EBS) shares jumped over 23% premarket on Friday as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved expanded use of the company’s ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine to include ...

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 ...