Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also ...

More than 100 monkeypox cases have been detected worldwide in the past month, including in the US. Monkeypox symptoms can be confused with those of chickenpox. One chart shows how monkeypox symptoms ...

Fortunately, researchers were able to create a vaccine against this virus. The virus injected is a live virus, but it isn’t the variola virus known to cause smallpox. Instead, the vaccinia virus is ...

The world's very first vaccine, developed in 1798 to eradicate smallpox, remains one of the greatest mysteries in the history of medicine. The vaccine has saved countless lives since it was first ...

With global spread progressing around the United States and within North Carolina, there have been claims that a smallpox vaccine can be used to combat monkeypox. Claims regarding the effectiveness of ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania did not contain variola virus, the ...

President Bush has announced his plan to vaccinate some Americans. Both the disease and the vaccine carry serious risks. Here are the answers to some common questions about smallpox and its prevention ...

Frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania "contain no trace of virus known to cause smallpox," federal health officials said. The ...

Smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases, eradicated three decades ago, is kept alive under tight security today in just two places -- the United States and Russia. Many other countries say the ...

The "atomic bomb" of bioterrorism is the smallpox virus, which, if unleashed into a general population, might kill millions around the world in a few years. Such a possibility, made more real by last ...

The last known case of smallpox in the UK was recorded in the summer of 1978, with the disease claiming the life of Janet Parker, a 40-year-old medical photographer from Birmingham SMALLPOX was once a ...

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