Back in 1999, the WHO set a deadline to destroy the remaining smallpox samples, but the U.S. and Russia have repeatedly delayed action. At the 2006 meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA ...

Eliminated as a health concern in the 1970s, new research on virus prompted by fears of terrorist threats.

In the last years of the campaign to eradicate smallpox, the health workers fanning out to the disease’s stubborn hot spots developed a strategy: Official reports or gossip relayed by ...

Chicago health officials unveiled plans Sunday that could call for thousands of hospital workers who would treat victims of a bioterrorism attack to be vaccinated against smallpox.The plan is part ...

"You have smallpox," are 3 words that you never want to hear. But having a treatment available like this one manufactured by SIGA Technologies is still quite important.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 28.—The whole State of Kentucky is at the mercy of smallpox. With the disease prevalent in thirty-five counties of the State, the State Board of Health finds itself without ...

A government scientist cleaning out a storage room last week at a lab on the National Institutes of Health's Bethesda campus found decades-old vials of smallpox, the second incident involving the ...

Smallpox isn’t actually gone. The deadly virus is still used for critical health and defense research in government labs to help protect the U.S. against a possible outbreak. Smallpox is one of ...

The rise and fall of smallpox may be a short blip instead of a long reign. It was officially eradicated in 1980, but the disease we killed off may have been only a couple hundred years old, not ...