Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest ...

The smallpox eradication strategy focused on surveillance and containment. Cases were detected through surveillance and were isolated to prevent further transmission. Contacts of the cases were ...

As an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control, he was actively involved in directing smallpox eradication programs in Nigeria (66-70), Bangladesh (72-76), and Somalia (77). He is a ...

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late 1970s, which means there is no immunity in the population as a whole. So what is the history of Smallpox? • The first known victim of smallpox was ...

Pope Francis warned of the "scourge of antisemitism" in his Angelus prayer on Sunday, the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the ...

Minister for Agriculture and Regional NSW Tara Moriarty has today confirmed the successful eradication of avian influenza in the Hawkesbury region, one of the most significant outbreaks in the state’s ...

Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought polio to the brick of eradication. American institutions have contributed to and benefited from membership in WHO," said the health agency ...

Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought polio to the brick of eradication. American institutions have contributed to and benefited from membership in WHO," said the health agency in ...