It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

Health authorities converged on a Northwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Memphis after a passenger remarked that a rash on his neck might be a result of smallpox, officials said today. The 40 ...

Sometimes great successes have unintended consequences. That's the case with one of the world's biggest triumphs - the eradication of smallpox. That achievement may have set the stage for an outbreak ...

An old photograph of a man with a spotted body rash does not show a migrant with smallpox among asylum seekers in Mexico headed towards the US border in 2023. No known naturally occurring smallpox ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Wednesday, Aug. 14, that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global public health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across ...