Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

Smallpox, once a deadly global scourge, became the first eradicated disease thanks to an accidental discovery by Edward ...

Umbilicated smallpox pustules on the arms. Reprinted with permission from Smallpox and Its Eradication.[6] ...

Eczema herpeticum can clinically resemble smallpox. On the basis of the algorithm for rapid evaluation of patients with an acute generalized vesiculopustular rash illness, our patient met criteria ...

A Child From 17th-Century Europe Might Have Rewritten the History of Smallpox The deadly scourge goes back for centuries, but how many?

Forehead acne is typically caused by hormones or irritation from products applied to your skin or hair. Some health conditions, like rosacea, may cause similar symptoms.

How to get rid of strawberry legs, a.k.a. those dark spots that make your skin look like the outside of—you guessed it— a strawberry, is a lot easier than one might think. But before you can ...

Viral rashes can affect children and adults alike. Learn how to recognize them, how they're spread, and how to treat them.

An armpit rash can be uncomfortable or even painful. Often, the cause is mysterious, but you can treat the conditions at home. Sometimes, however, an armpit rash is severe enough to require a trip ...

Shapona, the Yoruba god, nurtured humans, giving them the grains that sustained life, but he also used smallpox (which caused granular pustules) to punish people.

AT a time when the study of tropical diseases is setting its indelible mark on the history of the progress of medicine, it is well to be reminded that in the tropics we have diseases that can by ...