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

The shots have been stockpiled for years by countries such as Japan, the United States and Canada in case smallpox, an ...

Rich countries have several hundred million doses of vaccines that could help fight an mpox outbreak in Africa, where donated ...

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

As an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control, he was actively involved in directing smallpox eradication programs in Nigeria (66-70), Bangladesh (72-76), and Somalia (77). He is a ...

Nigeria eradicated wild polio in 2020, but more than 50 cases of the poliovirus type 2 variant were reported between January and May. Authorities and global partners met Wednesday in Abuja with ...

The Ministry for Primary Industries is working to mitigate the impact of any avian influenza outbreak, since it can’t control the movements of migrating birds that may bring it to Aotearoa.

and that the disease will be eradicated in the next decade. During the past twenty-one years, nearly half a million cases of smallpox have been reported in the United States, one State alone ...

Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday declared mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in southwestern Japan, decades after launching efforts to eliminate the invasive species that ...

Given that polio was all but eradicated in this region of the world, how might the ten-month-old baby in Gaza have caught it? The sequences of the polioviruses detected in Gaza in July 2024 ...

The smallpox vaccine can protect against both strains of MPXV: clades I and II. Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in 1980 after an intensive global vaccination campaign. The last smallpox ...