The public workshop will take place Sept. 16 in Gaithersburg, Md., and seek to identify key issues in the development and evaluations of these vaccines. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center ...

Smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases, eradicated three decades ago, is kept alive under tight security today in just two places -- the United States and Russia. Many other countries say the ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — A Danish company has delivered the first 1 million doses of a next-generation smallpox vaccine to the U.S. national stockpile, a vaccine reserved for people with weakened immune ...

The ghost of an ancient disease could inform the fight against COVID-19. This is an Inside Science story. "Testing, testing, testing" has become the mantra of the fight against the coronavirus.

AUSTIN -- Beginning Jan. 24, state medical teams will begin inoculating thousands of public health and hospital personnel with the smallpox vaccine as a precaution against an outbreak of the ...

David Williams of The Los Angeles Times has uncovered a $433 million dollar government contract to purchase a smallpox anti-viral drug that may, or may not, be necessary in the case of a bioterrorist ...