Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also ...

Bill Foege — the man behind smallpox eradication — reflects on politics and public health as Trump prepares to take office.

Smallpox, one of the biggest killers in history, is caused by a virus called variola. Variola causes a distinctive rash and is often lethal. The name variola comes from the Latin word for “spotted” ...

To win American independence, he not only had to defeat the British army; he had to defeat smallpox. At the time, 90% of deaths in the Continental Army were due to disease. Smallpox was so feared ...

On Thursday, the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved SIGA Technologies (NASDAQ:SIGA) antiviral treatment ...

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program ...

Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another virus that is similar to the smallpox virus, yet different enough not to bring on the smallpox disease once it enters your body.

Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the ...

We need more than just Mitch McConnell speaking out in favor of the polio vaccine. McConnell is one of hundreds of thousands ...

The last time smallpox was detected in Samothrace was in 1996 - Today there are about 50,000 sheep and goats on the island ...

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy noted that consuming alcohol increases the risk for "at least seven types of cancer" ...