Researchers designed the antiviral with smallpox in mind, Hruby says. But because it targets a protein that other orthopoxviruses, including the monkeypox virus, use, scientists think the drug ...

Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, and is spread from one person to another via infected saliva droplets. A person exposed to the virus might not show any symptoms for 12 days before ...

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 ...

With smallpox, you can vaccinate after the individual has been exposed to the virus. Let's say you are exposed today. We can vaccinate you two to three days later and protect you against smallpox.

President Bush announced that the U.S. plans to vaccinate selected military, embassy and health care workers against smallpox. Terence Smith discusses Bush's decision with Dr. Julie Gerberding and ...

Smallpox spread from person to person via infectious droplets, killed around a third of sufferers and left another third permanently scarred or blind. Around 300 million people died from it in the ...

Vaccines against smallpox given until the mid-1970s offer continuing cross-reactive immunity to mpox (previously known as monkeypox), researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report in a ...

A first-of-its-kind study from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and the University of B.C. estimates that smallpox, overfishing and ...

As smallpox immunity wanes, monkeypox chains of transmission have spread beyond initial infections to upwards of seven or eight people removed from that initial infection, Heymann explained.

A BARNSLEY councillor has issued a powerful plea to families to get their children vaccinated - warning of a return to t...

He argues that smallpox influenced the journey towards independence from British rule, and how Americans conceived of their new, hard-won liberties. It is a tale of startling contemporary relevance.

The differences in the Viking variant are significant enough for the virus to make up a new group, or clade, of Variola. It is not an earlier version of the modern virus. Both modern smallpox and ...