Whether or not it will be heeded, one of the key learnings from COVID-19 is that preparedness planning for future infectious disease outbreaks cannot be shortchanged. And while the pandemic continues ...

Widespread vaccinations after a terrorist attack with the smallpox virus would save thousands more lives than the response plan currently being considered by the U.S. government, a new study finds.

Scientists have made significant progress in developing an animal model of smallpox that closely resembles human disease, which will be necessary for testing of future vaccines and potential ...

A duo from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have developed a means of determining whether the CAST/EiJ rodent model is susceptible to infection by variola virus (VARV), the ...