investigated the incident, sparking fears of a smallpox outbreak at the facility.... Smallpox is a highly

Much like the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced the world to adapt, similar crises have rocked civilisations in years gone by.... More than 500 years ago, Cortés and his men arrived in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, where they were welcome by the emperor Montezuma.... Things were initially very friendly-but then everything changed. Having conquered Cuba, Cortés was ordered to lead an expedition to the central American mainland. His 500 men headed into the Mexican interior, home to the

The world’s fourth-richest man said that to avoid this type of situation, we would need" tens of billions" to be spent in research and development as a preventative measure.... You know, how would the world respond to that?... “ You'd think this would be a priority....

Some gay and bisexual men at higher risk of exposure to monkeypox should be offered the smallpox

is related to smallpox, becomes more widespread. According to CNN, 74 facilities in 46 states already

outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949. The virus is considered so deadly that only

it is for polio, but less so than it was for smallpox.... Researchers compared the technical

smallpox vaccine can help protect it if necessary, and therefore no scientists expect the infection to

endemic in west and central Africa has tended not to change. Rosamund Lewis, head of the smallpox

back centuries--to the measles and smallpox epidemics that first decimated the original Americans