(Original Caption) Smallpox in an unvaccinated child. Is it finally time to eliminate the remaining stocks of variola (smallpox) virus for good? The World Health Assembly will discuss the current ...

Inoculation smallpox sometimes occurs when variola virus is introduced into the skin either intentionally or accidentally. A local skin lesion appears on the third or fourth day, with fever and ...

Oxford: Smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been eradicated worldwide. Researchers have now recovered fragments of ancient DNA belonging to the variola virus, the virus that causes ...

Researchers studying the mpox virus have made an interesting observation which may relate back to an outbreak of smallpox in Glasgow in 1950. The study—which is led by the MRC-University of Glasgow ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A virus closely related to smallpox disguises itself as a piece of a broken cell to trick its way into cells, Swiss researchers said on Thursday in a discovery that could lead to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe the case of a woman who developed a genital infection after having sexual contact with a military ...

The Bush administration announced yesterday that it opposes the destruction of the world's known samples of smallpox virus next year and instead favors retaining the microbe so research on treatments ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have recovered and analysed the first ancient smallpox virus genomes ever identified in the Americas, providing the strongest direct evidence to date that the ...

Recent studies on Inca mummies have unveiled groundbreaking biological evidence that links the European colonization of the ...

Smallpox is a devastating disease with high case-fatality and transmission rates. It is caused by variola, a large and complex virus from the orthopoxvirus family, which infects only humans. A disease ...