Caption White pox disease on a frond of the endangered elkhorn coral on Carysfort Reef in the Florida Keys. White pox disease comes from humans, but when it infects coral, as in this case from the ...

In 1967, the World Health Organization began an “intensified effort” to eradicate smallpox, a contagious disease caused by the variola virus. The project involved mass vaccination along with ...

Fowl pox is a poultry disease that affects chickens, turkeys, pheasants and even ducks. It is an old disease mainly seen in adult birds and characterised by the appearance of warts or blisters on ...

No insight is given into the nature of the field work that went into making large countries in Africa and Asia smallpox-free, and especially into the critical strategies of disease surveillance ...

One historian described smallpox as a "virus that had plagued humankind for three thousand years." In 1980, the WHO certified the disease had been eradicated after a successful global vaccination ...

The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness ... According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more ...