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Smallpox didn’t begin in the New World. It plagued the Old World for thousands of years before Columbus ever “discovered” the Americas. The Washington Post estimates that somewhere between ...

The World Health Assembly ... scientists would need samples of the modified virus to develop a new vaccine and therapeutics—the legacy smallpox samples would be scientifically useless. Similarly, ...

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Health officials around the world have urged people to be alert to ... We're asking the public to contact their healthcare provider if they have a new rash and are concerned about monkeypox." ...

Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New ... by the World ...

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On this day in history, March 4, 1754, Benjamin Waterhouse, a pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, was born in Newport, Rhode ...