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.

On Dec. 9, 1979 — 45 years ago Monday — a commission of doctors working with the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated from the face of the Earth. The disease, which ...

Often called the Speckled monster, Smallpox was one of the most terrifying diseases known to humanity. In 18th-century Europe ...

Smallpox, the only human infectious disease to have been successfully eradicated, ailed people at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study of DNA sampled from Viking Age skeletons ...

ATLANTA — Dr. 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 ...

Exit COVID, enter monkeypox. Makes you wish we’d saved some of the smallpox vaccine we flushed after smallpox was eradicated 40 years ago, huh? Lucky me, I was born before then, so I got the smallpox ...