The infectious disease of smallpox ran rampant for centuries, killing millions – until an experiment on the eight-year-old James Phipps changed everything.

An antiviral treatment developed for smallpox was successful in treating monkeypox – although, so far, results have been reported for only one person, so it is too soon to know how well it works. A ...

LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - A smattering of monkeypox cases in Britain has prompted authorities to offer a smallpox vaccine to some healthcare workers and others who may have been exposed, as a handful ...

DEADLY smallpox, which claimed the lives of an estimated 500 million people in the 20th century, could help trigger the next pandemic, experts fear. The highly contagious virus – known medically as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON (AP) — British officials say a health worker involved in treating a patient with monkeypox has been infected with the rare ...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge of interest in the study of infectious disease transmission, and how control measures could change the course of the pandemic. New research published ...

Several cases of monkeypox, a rare viral disease marked by lesions, have been confirmed recently in a number of countries. So far, only one antiviral, tecovirimat, has been approved in any part of the ...

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 to the ...