In the years after the Civil War, smallpox spread throughout the South, mainly infecting Black people. The story of an outbreak of a disease long since eradicated may seem remote from our own times.

With global spread progressing around the United States and within North Carolina, there have been claims that a smallpox vaccine can be used to combat monkeypox. Claims regarding the effectiveness of ...

From eradicating smallpox to battling the COVID-19 pandemic, these vaccine pioneers have helped make colossal strides in ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania did not contain variola virus, the ...

The world's very first vaccine, developed in 1798 to eradicate smallpox, remains one of the greatest mysteries in the history of medicine. The vaccine has saved countless lives since it was first ...

Measles and smallpox, for example, are viruses; Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterium that causes a range of diseases, ...

Frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania "contain no trace of virus known to cause smallpox," federal health officials said. The ...

The "atomic bomb" of bioterrorism is the smallpox virus, which, if unleashed into a general population, might kill millions around the world in a few years. Such a possibility, made more real by last ...

Smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases, eradicated three decades ago, is kept alive under tight security today in just two places -- the United States and Russia. Many other countries say the ...

President Bush has announced his plan to vaccinate some Americans. Both the disease and the vaccine carry serious risks. Here are the answers to some common questions about smallpox and its prevention ...

The last known case of smallpox in the UK was recorded in the summer of 1978, with the disease claiming the life of Janet Parker, a 40-year-old medical photographer from Birmingham SMALLPOX was once a ...

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late 1970s, which means there is no immunity in the population as a whole. So what is the history of Smallpox? • The first known victim of smallpox was Pharaoh ...