Computational model compares mpox's airborne transmission risk to COVID-19 and smallpox
A collaborative research effort between the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and the A*STAR Institute of High ...
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Smallpox and modernity
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 ...
What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’
That era might now be over. In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, ...
‘Measles is only a plane flight away’: As outbreak surges, experts warn against global health funding cuts
Although measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, it still rages on in many parts of the world. With decreasing vaccination rates across the US, experts say, imported cases can ...