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 ...

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 ...

With concerns that mpox may now spread more easily and be more severe, researchers warn that failing to curb the outbreak means “nobody is safe.” ...

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

Two decades later, it had mostly succeeded. Archive: In October, the Somalia smallpox eradication program recorded the last case in Merca town. And it seems to me that this was the last known case ...

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 ...

Georgetown University announced the three inaugural winners of the Magis Prize, which awards $100,000 in research funding and two semesters of leave to associate professors who demonstrate exceptional ...

In a post-9/11 world, with fears of terrorists using a long-eradicated disease like smallpox as a bioweapon, the US was preparing to bring back the smallpox inoculation program. But to Tucker ...