Mpox: Vaccines - World Health Organization (WHO)
Jan 22, 2025 · This page answers the most frequently asked questions about mpox vaccines. For more information about protecting yourself and others from mpox, please see our public …
History of smallpox vaccination
One of the deadliest diseases known to humans, smallpox remains the only human disease to have been eradicated. Many believe this achievement to be the most significant milestone in …
Smallpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity and …
Public advice on mpox vaccination
People given LC16m8 vaccine will have a skin reaction called a “take” which occurs within two weeks of vaccination and then heals, sometimes leaving a small scar. Reports of severe …
Smallpox: surveillance - World Health Organization (WHO)
A woman shows her vaccination scar to an army medical unit, former Yugoslavia, 1972. Dr Henderson, chief of the Smallpox Eradication Unit, and a local health worker check the …
Smallpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by variola virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus family. Smallpox, which is believed to have originated over 3,000 years ago in India or Egypt, …
Smallpox vaccines - World Health Organization (WHO)
Jan 3, 2014 · The history of smallpox holds a unique place in medicine. It was one of the deadliest diseases known to humans, and to date (2016) the only human disease to have been …
Smallpox and mpox orthopoxviruses vaccine position paper
Aug 23, 2024 · This position paper is concerned with vaccines and vaccination against mpox and smallpox. Since the publication of the 2014 meeting report on smallpox vaccines, and the …
Smallpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
Jun 28, 2016 · The virus which causes smallpox is contagious and spreads through person-to- person contact and saliva droplets in an infected person’s breath. It has an incubation period …
Chickenpox - World Health Organization (WHO)
Feb 4, 2025 · WHO questions and answers page on chickenpox, including information on transmission, symptoms, complications, treatments and prevention.