Foege’s greatest accomplishment was that we don’t have to think about his greatest accomplishment: developing the ring vaccination strategy that helped eradicate smallpox from the face of the Earth.

H. Foege, a former CDC director who helped eradicate smallpox and whose health work saved millions of lives, died Saturday in ...

On Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic ...

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.

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More than four decades after smallpox was eradicated, scientists are reassessing the legacy of that public health triumph.

In a groundbreaking new study, a team of researchers from South Dakota State University—led by associate professor Saikat ...

SHELTON, CONNECTICUT / ACCESS Newswire / February 12, 2026 / NanoViricides, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE ...

Researchers identified how the poxvirus protein VITF-3 forms a molecular ring that clamps onto DNA with viral RNA polymerase, ...