Scientists from Washington State University are using and AI model to identify animal populations most likely to spread ...

Smallpox, one of the biggest killers in history, is caused by a virus called variola. Variola causes a distinctive rash and is often lethal. The name variola comes from the Latin word for “spotted” ...

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Of all the diseases ever suffered by humans, smallpox is the only one to be completely eradicated from the face of the Earth. The few known remaining samples are under heavy guard in research labs ...

Google searches for "smallpox vaccine" have rocketed since monkeypox cases started turning up in people across Europe and North America who have no recent travel history to Africa. The search ...

With a global alarm ringing because of an unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox, we should also consider a different but closely related viral threat. Gigi Gronvall is a senior scholar at the Johns ...

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This news delighted everyone, in that smallpox had plagued humanity for centuries. Human ingenuity had defeated smallpox, a triumph of science, of technology, and of a strategy.