An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

Vaccinia necrosum (gangrenosum) or progressive vaccinia was a severe and sometimes fatal complication that occurred in persons with underlying immune deficiency following primary vaccination or ...

Monkeypox and smallpox are both viral diseases caused by viruses from the same genus family, Poxviridae, but they have ...

The topic of vaccines can be complex. It's important to know that not only have vaccines been around for centuries, but they ...

A pharmaceutical company based in Chatham, New Jersey, in US, has announced a research agreement with Kenya Medical Research ...

The trial will be conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in partnership with Emergent BioSolutions.

To win American independence, he not only had to defeat the British army; he had to defeat smallpox. At the time, 90% of deaths in the Continental Army were due to disease. Smallpox was so feared ...

Britain is mounting a major pre-emptive strike against smallpox attack by germ war terrorists. Up to 60million doses of the vaccine are being stockpiled, enough to treat the entire population.

The Frederick biotechnology company BioFactura has announced $7.8 million in new contract activations to study a treatment ...

Press Release - A drug currently approved for smallpox in the U.S. will undergo clinical trials to treat patients infected by the Mpox viruswho are at risk of severe complications in the Democratic ...

The disease soon spread across Europe. It caused symptoms such as genital ulcers, rashes, tumors, severe pain and dementia, ...

Despite the eradication of naturally occurring smallpox in 1977, stores of the virus have been maintained in laboratories in the United States and Russia. It is feared that certain rogue states ...