Monkeypox has spread to more than a dozen countries including several in Europe, the US, and Canada. The smallpox vaccine is 85% effective against monkeypox, but no longer widely available. The CDC ...

Bavarian Nordic is planning to dramatically scale up production capacity for its Jynneos vaccine in the event of a smallpox emergency, CEO Paul Chaplin said. Chaplin said the sudden and rapid spread ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says that action is needed to enhance U.S. readiness for smallpox and related diseases, as well as to ...

Monkeypox causes lesions that resemble pus-filled blisters, which eventually scab over. CDC/Getty Images Monkeypox isn’t a new disease. The first confirmed human case was in 1970, when the virus was ...

“The eradication of smallpox occurred prior to the development of the majority of modern virological and molecular biological techniques. Therefore, there is a considerable amount that is not ...