Any case of smallpox at this point would have to be considered as a possible bioterrorism attack. Unfortunately, your vaccine from the 1950s, like mine from the 1960s, cannot be considered effective.

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The smallpox vaccine is no longer administered routinely by any government, and there has not been a natural case detected since 1977, according to the WHO. The X post quoted in the image was ...

Then, a nasty rash. Alarmed doctors suspected smallpox but, instead, they soon discovered something even more bewildering: The first-known human case of monkeypox, now called mpox. The child was ...

The first confirmed human case was in 1970, when the virus was isolated from a child suspected of having smallpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Though usually mild, mpox can still ...

Image: James H. Brien, DO Field operations began in 1967, with the last case of naturally occurring smallpox reported in 1977 in Ali Maow Maalin in Merca, Somalia. Mr. Maalin was working as a cook ...

In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated, and no naturally occurring smallpox cases have been reported since that time. Two WHO sanctioned collections of the live variola virus ...

I tracked down aging smallpox workers, some now in their 80s and 90s, who had done the painstaking work of hunting down every last case of smallpox in the region and vaccinating everyone who'd ...

Monkeypox cases are approaching 2,000 in the U.S. One of the first cases in the U.S. was detected in May. Two smallpox vaccines are available to prevent monkeypox. There have been 1,972 reported ...

In the 18th century, it was rumored that milkmaids in England often caught mild cases of cowpox but rarely contracted smallpox. Cowpox is a similar disease to smallpox, but milder and now known to ...

Ten years later, the last endemic smallpox case was recorded in Somalia; in 1980, the WHO declared smallpox eradicated. A 1969 photo of an individual being vaccinated during the Smallpox ...

Generally, monkeypox is an exceedingly rare disease. Smallpox vaccines can provide protection if administered before exposure; in some cases they can prevent or reduce severe illness if given ...