Denmark's Bavarian Nordic said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a freeze-dried formulation of its mpox and smallpox vaccine.

The smallpox came in the mail, in a little piece of 350-year-old human skin. And the surprise discovery is dramatically rewriting the history of one of the most notorious diseases to plague humankind.

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A paranormal investigator has reacted with sadness to the news that a former smallpox hospital and "paranormal hotspot" is being demolished. The site, which also served Don Styler's Physical Training ...

Kenneth Silverman, Mather’s biographer, wrote, “The smallpox epidemic that struck Boston in April of 1721 lasted a full twelve months and infected half the city’s population.

Smallpox was the most dreaded and deadliest disease known to humans. It spread fast because it was an airborne disease.

In these dire days, when fear of epidemic is great, it seems peculiar to have found pleasure in reading a book about smallpox in the 18th century, early attempts at inoculation and two heroic ...

The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.

Australia is no stranger to outbreaks of deadly disease, often with disastrous consequences, especially for Indigenous peoples.