Today we're talking about the Antonine Plague that took the lives of 5 million people over 14 years during the rule of Marcus Aurelius. Today, we're talking smallpox, war, false prophets, and ...

Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional.

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 ...

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

Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also has. This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine.

Smallpox and chickenpox might seem similar. They both cause rashes and blisters. They both have “pox” in their names. But other than that, they’re completely different diseases. You really ...

A Facebook photo claims smallpox, a viral infection the World Health Organization declared eradicated in 1980, will return now that President-elect Donald Trump has said he will nominate Robert F ...

Cases of mpox were almost 12 times more likely in males and appeared more frequently in younger people. In addition, people with HIV were more than twice as likely to test positive for mpox; however, ...

Smallpox killed 3 in 10, until the first vaccines conquered it. A gruesome killer for centuries, smallpox did not discriminate—killing kings and commoners alike—until an English doctor found a ...

Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with patient zero for mpox back in 1970.

Does decades-old smallpox vaccination protect against monkeypox? And on Monday, the CDC endorsed a strategy of giving the smallpox vaccine under the skin — at a fifth of the usual dose.

While the origins of smallpox has remained a mystery for centuries, researchers now believe that it dates back 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. Until recently, the earliest genetic ...