Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until it was completely eradicated from the Earth in the late 1970s, it is estimated that smallpox killed at least 300,000 people worldwide during the ...

Any case of smallpox at this point would have to be considered as a possible bioterrorism attack. Unfortunately, your vaccine from the 1950s, like mine from the 1960s, cannot be considered effective.

Matthew Newman, a 33-year-old from Bethesda, first checked his upper arm to see if he had received the smallpox vaccine as a child. Then, just to be sure the indentation he saw was really a scar ...

Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional.

Sontheimer, 57, volunteered to be vaccinated for smallpox Thursday at University Hospitals. He will be part of a 20- to 30-member team that would respond to a smallpox outbreak caused by bioterrorism.

Suspicious scarring on ancient Egyptian mummies (including the Pharoah Ramses V who died in 1157 BC) leads some to believe that the history of smallpox stretches back at least 3,000 years.