Vozrozhdeniye Island served as a Soviet biological weapons testing site for decades. Weaponized anthrax spores left behind remain a dangero...

In 1789, a horrific outbreak devastated Indigenous Australians around Sydney Harbor. Up to 70% of local First Nations people died. For over...

Musty bathroom smells often originate from showerhead bacterial biofilms. Controlling moisture and cleaning buildup are key to a truly fres...

Antarctic ice cores climate change: Scientists found ancient air trapped in Antarctic ice. This ice holds records of Earth's atmosphere for...

Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine in the late 1700s. He noticed milkmaids, who contracted cowpox, were immune to smallpox. Jenne...

Although the smallpox jab has shown to reduce the chance of symptomatic infection and severe illness from monkeypox, protection may decline...

“At the moment, the world is relying on one manufacturer, Bavarian Nordic, for the monkeypox vaccine,” said Manish Bhargava, a fund manager...

The group of public health and infectious diseases researchers said that the emergence of monkeypox disease in non-endemic areas is a remin...

"India has always been at the forefront of extending help to the world, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, and this time also the wor...

"As a responsible MedTech product manufacturer, we feel that the current situation calls for immediate measures to stop the viral spread. I...

Most children and adults with healthy immune systems are likely to dodge severe illness, experts. But there are two high-risk groups.

Monkeypox belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus of viruses, which includes smallpox. Luckily, due to something called cross-protection, smallp...

As per the study published in British medical journal Lancet, researchers analysed patients' response to the first off-label use of two ant...

The monkeypox outbreak is something "everybody should be concerned about," U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday, adding that U.S. health...

However, they said, the main challenges lie in securing sufficiently high vaccine coverage and respond quickly enough to immune-escape vari...

Four in 10 Americans, and six in 10 French people say they will not get vaccinated against the virus, even if the shot is free.

Toronto, Dec 9 (IANS) Smallpox, a pathogen that caused millions of deaths worldwide, may not be an ancient disease but a much more modern k...