PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) -On December 9, 1979, a commission of scientists declare smallpox has been eradicated. The disease, ...

Smallpox, the only human infectious disease to have been successfully eradicated, ailed people at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study of DNA sampled from Viking Age skeletons ...

Long before the pandemic of 2020, there was the fear of a smallpox outbreak during the American Civil War. Remarkably, modern researchers were able to find traces of the smallpox vaccine strains used ...

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Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, which can be spread though infectious droplets that are exhaled as people talk, cough, or sneeze. It seems like smallpox has infected humans for as long as ...

New genetic research from an international team including McMaster University, University of Helsinki, Vilnius University and the University of Sydney, suggests that smallpox, a pathogen that caused ...

The following is a brief history of vaccines starting with the first known vaccine (smallpox) to the vaccines that are being used now for COVID-19. 1796 — Smallpox vaccine. Edward Jenner used cowpox ...

COVID-19 vaccine mandates are becoming a reality throughout the U.S. in states that set deadlines for residents to get their shots. All Washington, D.C., health workers had to have their first dose by ...

It was on December 9, 1987, that the first intifada began in Gaza after the news of the death of four Palestinians from an ...

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, people are getting used to the idea that the virus isn't going to disappear. Scientists predict that COVID will likely become endemic, a permanent part ...