Oregon pushes mpox vaccines as more serious type of virus spreads

Community transmission of a more serious type of mpox virus is increasing in several countries. Here's what health officials ...

Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research

New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread ...

Oregon officials urge people with higher mpox risk get vaccinated as more severe variant spreads

The Oregon Health Authority is asking people who are at higher risk of getting mpox to make sure they’re vaccinated as a more ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Smallpox Scabs That British Doctors Used to Inoculate Patients May Have Introduced the Deadly Disease to Australia, New Research Suggests

Two new studies find that British colonists arriving via ship in the late 18th century likely introduced smallpox, which ...
ZME Science

British First Fleet Likely Brought Smallpox to Australia and the Actual Toll May Have Been Millions

Researchers say British colonization of Australia may have killed millions after smallpox arrived with the First Fleet ...
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Another thing for millennial women to stress over

Shingles cases are rising sharply among 30-to-50-year-olds. Guess what causes it?

Smallpox, food shortages and war shaped everyday RI life in 1776

This year, as the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, The Providence Journal is taking a look at how everyday life ...

American vaccines that transformed public health, prevented millions of illnesses over 250 years

There is a reason that vaccines are widely considered to be the greatest public health tool after sanitation,” Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel told Fox News D ...

Shingles vaccine may also offer protection against dementia, studies increasingly show

Shingles, a condition triggered by the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus in the body, can cause a “war zone” of ...

Transgene to Present Preclinical Data Demonstrating Robust Protection Against Mpox with its Novel Scalable Cell Line–Derived MVA Vaccine Candidate (TG MVA(TM)) at WCID 2026

TG-MVATM uses a scalable cell line manufacturing process intended to strengthen and diversify global mpox and smallpox vaccine supplyTG-MVATM ...