Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an entry in Wikipedia, it is highly relevant today. Understanding the ...

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] ...

Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional.

Both monkeypox and chickenpox are viral illnesses, but they have quite different symptoms, aetiology, transmission, and ...

Her passion for preventing smallpox formed after Lady Montagu’s brother died of smallpox, and later she had smallpox and lived but was left badly scarred.

It involved deliberately infecting someone with the disease by pricking someone else’s smallpox pustule, removing some pus, and placing that pus inside an incision on the recipient’s arm or thigh.

James R. Wilke's artist's residency at the International Museum of Surgical Science focuses on smallpox, but has resonance with contemporary pandemic issues.

Monkeypox, which comes from the same family of viruses causing smallpox, is often described as causing pustules, which are pus-filled lesions.

Vaccines against monkeypox One of the first vaccines against smallpox was developed from material sourced from bovine smallpox pustules.

Recent outbreaks have drawn attention to monkeypox. Get answers to common questions about this relative of the smallpox virus, including transmission, symptoms and effectiveness of smallpox vaccine.