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 ...

Cases have now popped up in at least 19 states, including Kentucky and Georgia. That’s near enough to home for me to start ...

Five years ago, while herding his cattle in the Cheptulel area, West Pokot County, David Mutai was shot by bandits who left him with an injury that saw him hospitalised for six months, and his arm ...

The chickenpox vaccine protects against the highly contagious varicella-zoster virus, which results in a rash and potentially ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus ... and forms a scab which separates within 14 to 21 days, leaving a scar (CDC, 2001; Henderson et al., 1999). Primary vaccination can produce ...

The family of a woman shot dead in South Wales said ‘her kindness, strength and love for her family will never be forgotten’. Joanne Penney, 40, died at the scene on Llys Illtyd, Talbot Green ...

NEW YORK, March 10 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The world’s most trusted Canadian has a much bigger role now. Mark Carney, who was bestowed, opens new tab with the accolade by Reader’s Digest ...

The first known victim of smallpox was Pharaoh Ramses V of Egypt, who died in 1157BC and whose mummy still bears the scars of the disease ... led to the first vaccine. He found that milkmaids ...

Timothée Chalamet, 29, missed out on making history as the youngest best actor winner at the 2025 Oscars for his performance as Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.” Ironically, Chalamet lost to ...

Ben Barnicoat felt like he would have been in the mix for the LMGT3 class win if for not a late-race penalty that left the Lexus factory driver “deflated” following a hard-fought Qatar 1812km ...

Shares of the vaccine maker fell 5.5% in after-market trading. Sign up here. The review is part of a government push to examine spending on messenger RNA-based vaccines, the technology that ...