Vaccination may induce life-long immunity to smallpox, suggest the results of the first detailed tests of their kind. This means that any terrorist release of smallpox might not spread as ...

As governments contend with post-Covid fatigue, tighter public health budgets and uneven vaccine uptake, concern is shifting back to older viral families that never fully disappeared. Recent findings ...

Often called the Speckled monster, Smallpox was one of the most terrifying diseases known to humanity. In 18th-century Europe alone, the disease killed an estimated 400,000 people every year, with a ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have recovered and analysed the first ancient smallpox virus genomes ever identified in the Americas, providing the strongest direct evidence to date that the ...