Smallpox is believed to have originated in Africa...ago and spread eastward through India. Smallpox played a role in the destruction of at...Empire coincided with a large-scale smallpox epidemic that killed between 3.5 million...

WASHINGTON -- A single case of smallpox would trigger a federal emergency plan...disease if bioterrorists ever unleashed smallpox. The Centers for Disease Control and...routine vaccinations of Americans against smallpox, which kills three in every 10 victims...

WASHINGTON -- Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide, but...ever used as a bioterrorist weapon. Smallpox cursed humanity with disease, death...been verified by others, according to smallpox experts who spoke at a recent bioterrorism...

Scientists in search of a smallpox cure hope they'll find one already...companies to see if any work against smallpox. Chances are good, they say, because...illnesses has undergone a revolution since smallpox was eliminated more than two decades...

...vaccinated some of its health workers against smallpox as a precaution in case they need to...is readying a terrorist attack using smallpox, which was eradicated outside laboratories...field if we did see a suspected case of smallpox," CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said Sunday...

As President Bush mulls authorizing smallpox vaccination for half a million service...routine civilian immunization against smallpox in 1972 and the Pentagon dropped the...nations like Iraq or North Korea may have smallpox stockpiles that could be used as weapons...

...federal grant to develop a drug against smallpox. Until last month, the project was...the landscape, and renewed fears that smallpox, which was eradicated 24 years ago...College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Today smallpox is an all-but forgotten scourge, vanquished...

ATLANTA -- Georgia's smallpox vaccination program is continuing...for heart trouble should avoid the smallpox vaccine after three people who recently...and Illinois decided to halt their smallpox shot programs while the federal investigation...

The needle that delivers smallpox vaccine is only about 3 inches long...could treat patients in a bioterrorist smallpox attack. But the vaccine itself can...knows she is a prime candidate for a smallpox response team. But her husband...

...wants to purchase 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine, enough to inoculate every American...Prevention was seeking a firm to manufacture smallpox vaccine last year, it was spurned by...United States has 15 million doses of smallpox vaccine, and has ordered an additional...