Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, circa 1820 - Hulton Archive/Getty Images When Dr William Foege died earlier this month, ...

More than four decades after smallpox was eradicated, scientists are reassessing the legacy of that public health triumph.

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a study to examine lessons learned from the recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and ...

William Foege, a leader of one of humanity’s greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died. Foege died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89, according to the Task ...

Against measles’ 12-18, smallpox – one of the most feared and deadliest diseases humanity faced, until it was eradicated – had an R 0 of 5-7. Polio is about the same, while the Ebola virus that caused ...

In a groundbreaking new study, a team of researchers from South Dakota State University—led by associate professor Saikat ...

Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no ...