For months now, the government has warned Americans to prepare themselves for a biological or chemical attack. President Bush decided that the risk of a smallpox outbreak was significant enough to ...

Lady Mary Montagu's face was disfigured by smallpox. The British aristocrat, born in 1689, survived the disease that killed her brother. Naturally occurring and caused by the variola virus, the ...

Physician Céline Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health... Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first ...

Decades after an effective vaccine helped wipe smallpox off the face of the earth, researchers claim they finally understand how that injection induces immunity: by recruiting bacteria found on the ...

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, people are getting used to the idea that the virus isn't going to disappear. Scientists predict that COVID will likely become endemic, a permanent part ...

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COVID-19 is unlikely just to disappear one day. In fact, only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated, and that is smallpox. The deadliest strain of smallpox killed almost a third of its ...

Vaccination has become a much talked about topic since the COVID-19 pandemic and one Facebook post is singing its praises. "Smallpox killed more than 300 million people in the 20th century alone," ...

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. I was a college student fascinated ...