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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.

If you watched the riveting HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you surely recall the scene in which his wife, Abigail, inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from ...

“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 ...

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 ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The good news about monkeypox is that it doesn’t spread that well between humans. Because of this, the current monkeypox ...

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 ...

Eliminated as a health concern in the 1970s, new research on virus prompted by fears of terrorist threats. ATLANTA — When Dr. Inger Damon dresses for work, it takes a while. First comes a doctor’s ...

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 ...

More and more people are getting used to the idea that COVID 19 isn't going to just disappear one day. There's only one human disease that's ever been truly eradicated. And that's smallpox. COVID-19 ...