With global spread progressing around the United States and within North Carolina, there have been claims that a smallpox vaccine can be used to combat monkeypox. Claims regarding the effectiveness of ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania did not contain variola virus, the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WABC) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, did not contain variola virus, ...

Frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania "contain no trace of virus known to cause smallpox," federal health officials said. The ...

The 9th Circuit made a ruling this year that could allow far-ranging government interference with private health decisions.

A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

Most Americans are concerned about the possibility bioterrorists might use smallpox. But there is a segment of the American populace that has even more reason to be concerned. If smallpox spreads ...

In the absence of active smallpox disease, the likelihood of a full understanding of the mechanisms of the immune protection elicited by first-generation smallpox vaccines is limited. By implication, ...

"You have smallpox," are three words that you never want to hear, regardless of whether the "you" is you or any other human being. As I wrote previously for Forbes, the last natural case of smallpox ...