With global spread progressing around the United States and within North Carolina, there have been claims that a smallpox vaccine can be used to combat monkeypox. Claims regarding the effectiveness of ...

Frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania "contain no trace of virus known to cause smallpox," federal health officials said. The ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania did not contain variola virus, the ...

Urgent work is needed to repair the birthplace of vaccinations in Dr Edward Jenner's garden. The historical hut in Berkeley, ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Bavarian Nordic announced on Friday a new contract with the European Commission, allowing countries ...

The New World, by and large, did not. There were cities in the Americas, yes, especially in Mesoamerica and the Andes. But ...

President Bush announced that the U.S. plans to vaccinate selected military, embassy and health care workers against smallpox. Terence Smith discusses Bush's decision with Dr. Julie Gerberding and Dr.

Susan Dentzer reports on the administration's plans to prevent an smallpox outbreak should it be used as a form of bioterrorism. Until it was eradicated in 1980, smallpox had long been one of humanity ...

For months now, the government has warned Americans to prepare themselves for a biological or chemical attack. President Bush decided that the risk of a smallpox outbreak was significant enough to ...

Did you know the last ever person to die from the deadly disease Smallpox was here in the West Midlands? Her name was Janet Parker. She worked at the University of Birmingham and was treated at the ...

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 ...