Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

The signers acknowledged that leaders of their professions had previously condemned a street protest against lockdown ...

Single dose vaccination with TNX-801 protects animals from a lethal challenge with monkeypox, the causative agent of mpox ...

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd ...

Proving once again that anti-vax quack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to public health ...

Today we're talking about the Antonine Plague that took the lives of 5 million people over 14 years during the rule of Marcus Aurelius. Today, we're talking smallpox, war, false prophets, and ...

Following Rich's dad's death, Henry Patterson, in 2023, we received a veteran's flag from the funeral home honoring Dad's ...

Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a ...

You may never find yourself in a treatment center halfway across the world, but when suffering is close enough to touch, most ...

On my left arm is a large scar – about the size of a silver dollar (for those who remember when dollars were also coins). It’s what remains of my smallpox vaccination.

Scientific progress has improved the environment and human health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of Health and Human Services ...

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...