A bout of measles sends the immune system into shock, demolishing critical cells that help our bodies respond to threats.

Declared a public health emergency, Uganda has recorded 2,247 confirmed cases, with Kampala reporting 347 and Nakasongola 84 ...

The first known victim of smallpox was Pharaoh Ramses V of Egypt, who died in 1157BC and whose mummy still bears the scars of the disease. • When the Spanish took it into Hispaniola - now Haiti ...

The World Health Organization last week revealed that between Jan. 1 and April 12 this year, Canada reported 1,069 confirmed ...

Manuel Corpas, the chief scientific officer at start-up Cambridge Precision Medicine, has called for underrepresented ...

Legend has it that around the turn of the 19th into the 20th century, a grandmother, whose face was pocked with smallpox scars, dished out the special stewed tofu in Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital.

Tena Starr Okay, some trivia.  Although neither Steve nor I are big on guided tours, we took a tour of the supposedly haunted ...

Eventually, Claire and Geillis were tried for witchcraft, and when the latter showed her smallpox vaccination scar as the Devil's mark, Claire realized she was a time traveler. Geillis is an ...