All Stories: smallpox

The health chiefs had confirmed two cases of rare Monkeypox virus - only the fifth and sixth ever to be found in the UK.

WASHINGTON: The discovery of smallpox DNA in a 17th-century child mummy may shorten the timeline of the deadly infectious disease's history, according to a...

WASHINGTON: Donald Henderson, an American doctor and public health official who led the successful global drive to wipe out smallpox in the 1960s and '70s, credited with saving tens of millions of lives, has died. He was 87.