causing severe fever, body aches, and a signature rash of blisters. While this may seem like something rather medieval, it actually wasn't that long ago. Smallpox was a nightmare for civilizations ...

Smallpox is more severe in pregnant women than in non-pregnant women or in men, irrespective of vaccination status, [1,6] with high incidences of often fatal types of the disease. In addition ...

For example, monkeypox virus can cause severe smallpox-like disease in humans that clinically resembles variola virus. The species tropism that is exhibited by many poxviruses in terms of causing ...

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.

"Earlier vaccination against smallpox reduces the risks of severe monkeypox cases, since all poxviruses give good cross protection. Thanks to the mass vaccination against smallpox conducted in ...