On Dec. 9, 1979 — 45 years ago Monday — a commission of doctors working with the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated from the face of the Earth. The disease, which ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The end of smallpox vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo is responsible for some of the mpox surge ...

The problem is not how much we talk about historical genocide, but how little rigorous historical research is used by those who support it.

For many people dedicated to global health, their hero died on Jan 24, 2026. The passing of the American epidemiologist William “Bill” H Foege (1936–2026) should not, however, be seen as an ending, ...

An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

Dear Action Line: I saw a story in the paper recently about a smallpox scare in Lawton. Doctors were concerned that a patient had come in contact with a soldier who had been immunized for smallpox. I ...