Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more ...

smallpox? While close physical contact remains the dominant mode of transmission, the presence of mpox virus in respiratory fluids, such as mucus and saliva, raises concerns about possible aerosol ...

Dubbed Exercise Polaris the World Health Organisation (WHO) event pitted experts from 15 countries against a fictional virus called ... related to the now extinct smallpox and the currently ...

Samples of smallpox virus are not needed for the production or further development of new vaccines or drugs because animal model poxviruses are used instead. If smallpox were to be genetically ...

By the time world health officials claimed to have beat the virus it had killed more people over 3,000 years than any other known disease, including The Plague. Even though monkeypox is far less ...