May 21, 2015
News & Features
Dr. Donald A. Henderson had always doubted that polio could be eradicated, but he has now changed his mind.
Of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $450 million in grants, Mr. Gates says, “We were naïve when we began.”
Monkeypox is 20 times as common in parts of the Congo as it was 30 years ago, when smallpox vaccination was discontinued.
There are five known cases in the past 12 months of women from four states who got vaccinia through sexual contact with a member of the military.
A new book looks at the history of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, an arm of the C.D.C. that investigates medical outbreaks posing a public health threat.
The former Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island is now known as the Renwick Ruin for its architect, James Renwick Jr., who also designed St. Patrick's Cathedral. It has been abandoned for about half a century, and is the only ruin in New York City with official landmark status.
Vaccinations have been one of the most important health advances in history.
A 2-year-old nearly died from a viral infection he got from his father’s smallpox vaccination.
Could the virus really have been spread by blankets?
Q. Would it really have been possible for Europeans to infect Native Americans with the smallpox virus by giving them blankets used by other victims? How long could the virus live on a blanket? A. It would be at least theoretically possible, experts at the Centers for Disease Control and...
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