The variola virus doesn't get around much anymore. In fact, because it is all but extinct
humanity faces an unprecedented decision: Should it destroy this microscopic creature for …

Annals included articles about combination vaccines, the new influenza vaccine, hepatitis B
vaccine, pertussis vaccine, and rotavirus vaccine. This September issue includes material …

Since Edward Jenner's discovery of the smallpox vaccine 200 years ago, vaccines have
been one of the most lifesaving health interventions for humankind and, conversely, one of …

In the year 1960s, smallpox was still circulating in Africa and Asia. Within a decade of the
launch of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Intensified Smallpox Eradication …

Smallpox represents both the acme of man's efforts to combat infectious diseases and one of
his greatest fears. The disease emerged in prehistoric times to spread throughout the world …

For centuries, variola virus stalked the world with impunity causing unmeasured 0 suffering,
death and blindness. Today it is confined to glass vials kept under high security in six …

The eradication of smallpox, formally concluded by a World Health Assembly resolution in
1980, may be considered as one of the most important achievements in the history of public …

Smallpox immunization was stopped in 1980 when the disease was declared to be
eradicated. Only 2 acknowledged variola virus inventories remain, in the United States and …

Already the international community is starting to collect part of the health legacy-and it is
likely to be huge--that smallpox eradication will bequeath. Calculations indicate that in the …

Results from a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) indicates that the existing sup-ply-15.4 …