In 2016, archaeologists were conducting excavations at a 16th-century cemetery in the small fishing town of Huanchaco, which is located on the northwest coast of Peru, when they stumbled across the ...

Vials found at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania that were marked "smallpox" contained virus used to make the vaccine and not the virus that causes the disease, the US Centers for Disease ...

“We have identified a limited number of widely known organisms that could cause disease and deaths in sufficient numbers to cripple a city or region. Smallpox is one of the most serious of these ...

Mpox and smallpox are related as they are both caused by viruses from the same genus. Emergent’s vaccine is made from ...

Monkeypox cases are approaching 2,000 in the U.S. One of the first cases in the U.S. was detected in May. Two smallpox vaccines are available to prevent monkeypox. There have been 1,972 reported ...

The Bush administration announced yesterday that it opposes the destruction of the world's known samples of smallpox virus next year and instead favors retaining the microbe so research on treatments ...

A study from Würzburg reveals: pox viruses have developed a unique strategy to rapidly multiply after infecting a host cell. The findings uncover a previously unknown role for a well-known molecule ...

National Institutes of Health workers preparing to move a lab in Bethesda, Md., found an unwelcome surprise in a storage room this month: six vials of smallpox. There is no evidence that any of the ...

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.

A national survey last week revealed that huge numbers of Americans have serious misconceptions about smallpox, a deadly disease that has not occurred naturally for more than 20 years. The government ...

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) today announced it has received a $17 million contract modification from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the ...