And so, smallpox vaccinations were stopped. In the DRC, they ended in the early 1980s. And a generation of children vulnerable to mpox came into the world. The smallpox connection ...

Matthew Newman, a 33-year-old from Bethesda, first checked his upper arm to see if he had received the smallpox vaccine as a child. Then, just to be sure the indentation he saw was really a scar ...

ATLANTA -- Thirty years since the last routine smallpox vaccinations were given, state health officials are getting reintroduced to the scar-causing vaccine, double-pronged needles and safety ...

Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with patient zero for mpox back in 1970.

In 1885, Canada had no greater adversary of smallpox vaccination than Ross, an Anglo-Canadian physician and naturalist whose medical training was informed by the sanitary movement of the 19th century.

But with the 1-to-10 dilution, 70 percent of test subjects showed a "take" to the vaccine -- indicated by a blister that forms a scab and leaves a scar.

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined. Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50% ...

The city had cases of smallpox from 1870 to 1875 “when it died out, in part owing …to the introduction of…vaccination.” It “was free from the disease until 1885.

Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with patient zero for mpox back in 1970.