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 ...

On Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic ...

More than four decades after smallpox was eradicated, scientists are reassessing the legacy of that public health triumph.

When Covid-19 struck, humanity faced an out-of-control outbreak without vaccines or therapies. If it were a knife fight, we brought a crayon. The level of preparedness for monkeypox couldn’t be more ...

Researchers identified how the poxvirus protein VITF-3 forms a molecular ring that clamps onto DNA with viral RNA polymerase, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WABC) -- 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, ...

H. Foege, a former CDC director who helped eradicate smallpox and whose health work saved millions of lives, died Saturday in ...

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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 ...

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 ...