WHO declared smallpox eradicated in May, 1980. These letters bring intimate insights into not only the fellowship between ...

The World Health Organization declared smallpox officially eradicated in 1980. The vaccine is no longer administered ...

New cases of the disease every week and now more than a thousand deaths: the health authorities in Africa have been battling ...

If they commit to supporting long-proven safe vaccinations while increasing transparency and freedom to make choices on newer ...

Thousands of crocus bulbs have been planted in and around Dartmouth to highlight Rotary International’s “End Polio Now” ...

A recent article in Vox summarized U.S. public health data on the spectacular annual decline of serious and often fatal diseases after the introduction of vaccines in the early- to ...

The World Health Organization in 1980 officially declared smallpox eradicated. The last natural case was in 1977. The smallpox vaccine helped eradicate the smallpox virus. Because the virus doesn’t ...

According to the state data, during the 2013-14 school year, only 0.88% of Nueces County kindergartners had a conscientious ...

After small pox was eradicated and vaccinations against the disease came to an end, people in parts of Africa started getting ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.