Medical science has made astounding breakthroughs over the past century. With the advent of AI and quantum computing, there’s ...

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 ...

Social media users claim a vaccine approved for use against mpox could cause a smallpox outbreak, but the only thing ...

In August 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an in-depth position paper addressing the use of vaccines ...

Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health Organization. As a college student in the ...

The anti-vaccine lobby originated with smallpox vaccines. The eradication of smallpox was declared in 1979 and interest revived in 2001 with the possibility that it might be used as a terrorist ...

The global eradication of smallpox has been rightly called the “greatest life-saving achievement in the history of medicine,” as pointed out by Richard Preston in the foreword to the new book ...

False claims linking smallpox vaccination to HIV/AIDS have been shared on social media following the outbreak of mpox.

A recent report at the behest of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response says smallpox may be gone but the U.S. should better prepare in case of its return. “Immediately after ...

Of all the diseases ever suffered by humans, smallpox is the only one to be completely eradicated from the face of the Earth. The few known remaining samples are under heavy guard in research labs ...

Although smallpox was eradicated in the late 1970s, current international concern exists regarding the potential use of smallpox virus as an agent for bioterrorism. This manuscript reviews ...