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

The organised drive to expunge smallpox was, however, a much more complicated and disjointed entity. A composite of numerous multifaceted country- and region-oriented public health programmes, the ...

A Blueprint for Preparedness The coordinated global health effort that beat smallpox once, offers a blueprint for addressing future threats. The world has changed dramatically over the last 50 years, ...

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] ...

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 ...