Smallpox didn’t begin in the New World. It plagued the Old World for thousands of years before Columbus ever “discovered” the ...

Smallpox came to the New World in the late 1400s and early 1500s, decimating native populations in the West Indies and continental Americas. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case ...

A collaborative research effort between the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and the A*STAR Institute of High ...

Seven years later, the USSR returned to WHO and quickly proposed a new eradication program aimed at smallpox. The program was approved by the World Health Assembly, but the United States was ...

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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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.

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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 ...