who voluntarily exposed himself to smallpox at the hospital of Galloupes Island about two weeks ago, is ill with smallpox in its worst form at his home in Bedford, and probably cannot live.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued a health advisory, stating that while the country’s risk for the more severe form of mpox remains low, docto ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A two-dose vaccine can prevent mpox. People with untreated HIV are at greater risk for severe mpox. Mpox (monkeypox) is caused by a virus related to smallpox; both are members of the orthopox virus ...

"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 ...