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

Smallpox, a disease that killed an estimated 500 million people in the 20th century alone, is the only human disease to be eradicated. However, a new report, "Future State of Smallpox Medical ...

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” ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m an ER doc, public health researcher and patient advocate. In a year when one presidential candidate endorses vaccines, another is ...

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

Use the sterile petri dish to collect fluid from pustules on the cow's udder. To create a vaccine that will protect you against a pathogen, you usually begin with that pathogen and alter it in ...

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

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

Health officials around the world have urged people to be alert to monkeypox rashes, as more than 100 cases have been confirmed in the past month and an additional 131 are suspected, the World ...

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" ...