Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Foege in 1990: although his worldwide vaccination scheme initially met with some resistance, it was crucial to the worldwide ...

The MVA-BN vaccine showed an overall effectiveness of 57.8% (95% CI, 11.8-83.0) in reducing mpox cases at 14 days or longer after the first dose; however, the effectiveness was lower in people living ...

In recent years, the world has seen a surge in new and deadly infectious diseases, posing a major threat to global health. Outbreaks of COVID-19, H1N1 (swine flu), Ebola, Zika, and monkeypox are a ...

A new look at one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in history, which rapidly eradicated smallpox in Copenhagen in the early 1800s, has uncovered possible lessons for boosting vaccine ...

March 18, 2024 • Physician Céline Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health workers whose voices have been missing from ...

Eradication of smallpox has not eliminated the risk of accidental or intentional reintroduction of the variola virus, and although smallpox vaccination was highly successful, traditional vaccines had ...