Archaeologists unearth 500-year-old skeletons of Inca toddlers with smallpox
These children are South America's earliest known victims of a deadly bone infection caused by the smallpox virus.
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What Benjamin Franklin’s battles with a deadly virus that swept Colonial America can teach us about our own struggles with anti-vaxxers
When Bostonians in 1721 faced a deadly smallpox outbreak, a new procedure called inoculation was found to help fend off ...
Second smallpox drug approved by the FDA
The approval was based on studies that involved neither humans nor the variola virus due to ethical considerations.
Mummified child found in 17th century Lithuanian crypt might crack the mystery of smallpox virus
Though smallpox is now extinct, we need to learn about the origin of the virus.
