Being a child of the 1950s, aside vaccines for polio, TB and smallpox, the rest of the 'common diseases,' mumps, measles, chicken pox, rubella, and whooping cough were in fact, common! Sick days were ...

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel for young readers, a girl in Boston must survive a dangerous smallpox epidemic—and ...

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

Members of the Tsilhqot'in Nation were at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Thursday calling for the ...

U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, capping a week in which Indiana joined five other states with active outbreaks, Texas grew by another 60 cases and a third measles-related death was ...

U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, capping a week in which Indiana joined five other states with active outbreaks, Texas grew by another 60 cases, and a third measles-related death was ...

In early July 1871, a smallpox epidemic broke out in Negaunee, in the Iron Cliffs Location at Foster Mine. Dr. MacKenzie courageously did all he could to control it. He would move the stricken ...

smallpox remains the only human disease to be successfully wiped out. Polio, measles, mumps and rubella are still lurking out in the world, quietly waiting for a chance to reemerge and wreak havoc. A ...

The measles outbreak centered in the South Plains region of Texas grew to 541 cases across the state on Friday, according to health officials. The Texas Department of State Health Services ...