Most people in the U.S. have received vaccines to protect against infectious diseases. A vaccine against smallpox led to the ...

While the scenario and the virus were completely fictitious, scientists warn the threat of 'zombie viruses' emerging from ...

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

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

The U.S. formally eliminated measles in 2000 thanks to widespread vaccination, but public health experts fear the current ...

On a quiet summer day in 1978, then-40-year-old medical photographer Janet Parker came down with chicken pox, or so she thought. Within nine days, Mrs. Parker was admitted to the hospital, being too ...

“It is disappointing that, five years after the pandemic, Lake Superior College and the State of Minnesota refuse to recognize the legal and factual folly of its vaccine mandate. NCLA is proud to ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: With the resurgence of measles because of declining vaccination rates, should we be wary of the same ...

The FDA has approved a new freeze-dried formulation of Jynneos (smallpox and mpox vaccine, live, non-replicating).

With the resurgence of measles because of declining vaccination rates, should we be wary of the same happening with smallpox (which was also thought to have been ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Caitlin Rivers of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about long-term implications of measles outbreaks in West Texas, New Mexico and a dozen other states.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a breast cancer survivor whose cancer was 100% estrogen-responsive. I have completed five years of the ...