It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

Receiving a single dose of one type of smallpox vaccine seems to lower the risk of catching mpox by around 60 per cent, although this may vary depending on the variant of the virus. Cases of mpox, ...

The mpox virus appears to be circulating silently in parts of Nigeria, in many cases without the symptoms typically ...

Last fall, anthrax occupied most of our bioterror nightmares. This year, our anxiety has refocused on an even more frightening biological threat, one that researchers ...

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined. Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 31, 2025 – Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the freeze-dried formulation of JYNNEOS ® (Smallpox ...