Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an entry in Wikipedia, it is highly relevant today. Understanding the ...

Georgetown University announced the three inaugural winners of the Magis Prize, which awards $100,000 in research funding and two semesters of leave to associate professors who demonstrate exceptional ...

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined. Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until ...

Smallpox, the only human infectious disease to have been successfully eradicated, ailed people at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study of DNA sampled from Viking Age skeletons ...

A woman in Kathmandu carrying her child infected by small pox in 1964. Photo: WHO The smallpox virus plagued Nepali communities throughout the 19 th and early 20 th centuries. As historian Susan ...

The title of this recently published book captures its contents like a haiku: scourge, once, future, threat, and smallpox. The 2 book-ended words, scourge and smallpox, precisely enclose 3 simple ...

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Irish-born painter Thomas Hickey's painting in 1806 of three queens of Mysore where the royal woman on the right is pulling up her sari to spread awareness about small-pox vaccination. Photo: PRIVATE ...

The former CDC director was also a leader in campaigns against international health proble ...