Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Vaccinia virus (VACV) confers cross-protective immunity against ...

This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine. Let's take a deep dive into the world of smallpox vaccine scars – those little marks on our skin that hold big stories within ...

Many other sufferers were left disfigured. Thanks to a successful, widespread implementation of the smallpox vaccine, the virus was declared “extinct” in the United States in 1952. In fact ...

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS reflects the rising power of an anti-vaccination movement more than 100 years ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Vaccinia virus (VACV) confers cross-protective immunity against variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, and has therefore been ...

Today there is mounting concern about the threat of a bioterrorist attack using smallpox—so much concern that in October 2001 the American government decided to order enough vaccine to protect ...

and cowpox and to treat complications following smallpox vaccination. Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced topline ...

The advent of vaccinations came when a scientist, by the name of Edward Jenner, discovered that an individual exposed to a ...