Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Andrew Wehrman talked about what smallpox was. The American Revolution Institute in Washington, D.C, hosted this event. Author Andrew Wehrman ...

On Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic ...

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

WASHINGTON -- Making smallpox vaccine available is the first step. Getting people to take it may be much harder. The vaccine protects recipients against smallpox, but it can also kill. So the Bush ...

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 ...

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.

Last fall, anthrax occupied most of our bioterror nightmares. This year, our anxiety has refocused on an even more frightening biological threat, one that researchers ...

Rahima Banu, a toddler in rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world known to contract variola major, the deadly form of smallpox, through natural infection. In October 1975, after World ...

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic ...

Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) today announced a new order valued at USD 22.5 million from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) for the Company’s mpox and smallpox vaccine, MVA-BN®. This order, ...