Smallpox vaccines have been approved for monkeypox. But experts warn that many questions remain about the protection they provide and how to best administer them. Members of the Association of French ...

People with a genetic mutation that makes them more resistant to the AIDS virus probably have smallpox to thank, according to two population geneticists at the University of California, Berkeley.

ATLANTA (AP) _ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged state health officials around the country Tuesday to carefully study smallpox so doctors do not cause a panic by misidentifying a ...

April 1789: A major smallpox epidemic breaks out. In April 1789, 15 months after the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay, a major smallpox epidemic broke out. The Europeans who’d arrived in 1788 had ...