Pepper the cat is at it again. After his hunting skills helped virologists identify the first jeilongvirus in the United ...

Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighbouring countries and spark a larger ...

Today, the American W.H.O. exit may raise the risk of the smallpox virus escaping confinement and reinfecting the world, some health experts say.

ABSTRACT: This study describes an outbreak of avian poxvirus disease in previously pox-vaccinated turkeys in Brazil. The turkeys had suggestive gross lesions of cutaneous avian poxvirus in the skin of ...

At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella-zoster virus antibodies, and the results were negative.

An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

Dear Editor, We would like to share ideas on the publication Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of monkeypox cases in Brazil in 2022: a cross-sectional study 1 The epidemiological and ...

Since smallpox vaccinations stopped being used in the world, there is no known vaccine for smallpox. It is called MPOX, which is the correct name for the disease. It is characterized by being a ...

What is the Mpox virus that is currently spreading rapidly across the world? Read on to know more about this virus and understand if it is any different from the monkeypox virus.

Many of us experienced chickenpox as kids. The illness, which typically causes fever, headache, appetite loss, and an itchy, bumpy, red rash, is caused by Varicella zoster virus (VZV). Even though we ...