Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

People used to live on Uganik. Tucked deep into the protected shoreline of Uganik Bay’s Northeast Arm, Uganik Village was a small Alutiiq community inhabited until around 1916. Alutiiq people were ...

Vaccines revolutionized disease prevention, eradicating smallpox and reducing polio cases. House Democrats demand answers ...

The Fort Sill Indian School's painful legacy holds more than a century’s worth of memories and stories, many of which unfortunately are not happy ones under U.S. policy.

Enterotoxigenic E. coli infection can be prevented by vaccinating the mothers a month before they calve down. The vaccine ...

The federal government is no longer recommending pregnant women or healthy children receive the COVID-19 vaccine, which could ...

As a public health official, Jay K. Varma has handled putative anthrax attacks. He says an AI-simulated bioterror attack ...

The Alden Besse, from Hong Kong, arrived on Sunday, but was unable to pass quarantine in consequence of smallpox on board. By ...

But humanity only made the transition into that new world fairly recently. Smallpox eradication was a major part of that. Over the course of the 20th century, country after country fought it back.

Amid a US measles outbreak the US government has placed a $143.6m order for Bavarian Nordic’s smallpox/mpox jab Jynneos to bolster its infectious disease preparedness. The order is part of a ten-year ...

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