In the 20th century alone, an estimated 500 million lives succumbed to smallpox, making it the sole human disease to have been eradicated. However, a new report, the Future State of Smallpox ...

But identifying a monkeypox rash isn't always easy ... Symptoms of monkeypox can also be compared with smallpox — a related virus that was declared eradicated in 1980. Like smallpox, monkeypox ...

The second picture shows skin lesions on day 8 of the rash. The case is clearly classified as discrete ordinary-type smallpox. In the confluent subtype of ordinary-type smallpox, the lesions would ...

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 ...

Smallpox, one of the biggest killers in history, is caused by a virus called variola. Variola causes a distinctive rash and is often lethal. The name variola comes from the Latin word for “spotted” ...

The disease began with high fever and body aches. The infected person was most contagious when a rash appeared. But the hallmark of smallpox was the pus-filled swellings of the skin that left ...

Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another virus that is similar to the smallpox virus, yet different enough not to bring on the smallpox disease once it enters your body.

it is contraindicated for treating vaccinial keratitis and is of no benefit in treating postvaccinial encephalitis or smallpox. A minor adverse reaction is an erythematous rash that occurs about ...