Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with patient zero for mpox back in 1970.

Getting the mpox outbreak in Africa under control will be a challenge, but there are tools available to do it.

Smallpox is unlikely to return to the U.S. as a naturally occurring event, says Allison Berke, the chemical and biological weapons non-proliferation program director at the Middlebury Institute of ...

Child mortality has been halved in the last 25 years. Building on this progress, new innovations in immunization are working ...

At the end of the 20th century, a historian named Ward L. Churchill claimed that the smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838, which wiped out tens of thousands of Indigenous Americans in North Dakota, ...

LORNE LARSON, Smallpox outbreaks and immunization policies in Tanzania from the late nineteenth century to the First World War, Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (DECEMBER ...

Major smallpox outbreaks hit Fort Worth in 1881, 1882, 1886, 1888, 1889, and 1901. They seemed to be a summer phenomenon, but could strike in any season.

The first U.S. polio epidemic was documented in the 1890s and further outbreaks followed. It peaked as other infectious diseases, like smallpox and measles, were fading from view and concern.