The mention of ancient Egypt usually conjures images of colossal pyramids and precious, golden tombs. But as with most civilizations, the invisible world of infectious disease underpinned life and ...

Although smallpox is now ‘unfamiliar to the world today’ historian Elizabeth Fenn has written that it was ‘a misery commonplace in years gone by.’ For centuries, the smallpox virus and the gruesome ...

The Europeans brought smallpox with them, and the Americans gave them syphilis. Or so it appears: A study published in 2011 has systematically compared these European skeletons, using rigorous ...

The nine-year-old Pakistani girl who came down with fever soon after she reached Bradford, northern England’s wool capital, seemed to have malaria. After she died. Pathologist Norman Ainley did an ...

Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like smallpox, malaria and Guinea worm. By Adam Nossiter Dr. Joel Breman, a specialist ...

Those interested in the history of medicine should read the details surrounding the therapy rendered to President George Washington by his physicians in December 1799. 1 Purging, bloodletting and ...

(Original Caption) Smallpox in an unvaccinated child. Is it finally time to eliminate the remaining stocks of variola (smallpox) virus for good? The World Health Assembly will discuss the current ...