This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine. Let's take a deep dive into the world of smallpox vaccine scars – those little marks on our skin that hold big stories within ...

In the 20th century alone, an estimated 500 million lives succumbed to smallpox, making it the sole human disease to have been eradicated. However, a new report, the Future State of Smallpox ...

Of all the diseases ever suffered by humans, smallpox is the only one to be completely eradicated from the face of the Earth. The few known remaining samples are under heavy guard in research labs ...

Smallpox, one of the biggest killers in history, is caused by a virus called variola. Variola causes a distinctive rash and is often lethal. The name variola comes from the Latin word for “spotted” ...

They caused empires to fall and new ones to arise. Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago. We have no idea how many people it has killed, but we do that in the 20th century alone it killed ...

Smallpox was thought to date back millennia. However, past descriptions have been based on physical signs, such as a pustular rash, which can be confused with other diseases. ''We managed to ...

The smallpox came in the mail, in a little piece of 350-year-old human skin. And the surprise discovery is dramatically rewriting the history of one of the most notorious diseases to plague humankind.

Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another virus that is similar to the smallpox virus, yet different enough not to bring on the smallpox disease once it enters your body.

While others screamed their opposition, science, co-joined with technology and a working strategy, subdued and then eradicated smallpox, a triumph of human ingenuity. Modernity demanded vaccination.