William Foege, a leader of one of humanity’s greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died. Foege died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89, according to the Task ...

Researchers identified how the poxvirus protein VITF-3 forms a molecular ring that clamps onto DNA with viral RNA polymerase, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monkeypox has spread to more than a dozen countries including several in Europe, the US, and Canada. The smallpox vaccine is 85% ...

When Covid-19 struck, humanity faced an out-of-control outbreak without vaccines or therapies. If it were a knife fight, we brought a crayon. The level of preparedness for monkeypox couldn’t be more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, circa 1820 - Hulton Archive/Getty Images When Dr William Foege died earlier this month, ...

More than four decades after smallpox was eradicated, scientists are reassessing the legacy of that public health triumph.

Frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania "contain no trace of virus known to cause smallpox," federal health officials said. The ...

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This past week Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson began to make arrangements to have on hand enough smallpox vaccine for every man, woman and child in the United States. Although ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania did not contain variola virus, the ...

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It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.