(Original Caption) Smallpox in an unvaccinated child. Is it finally time to eliminate the remaining stocks of variola (smallpox) virus for good? The World Health Assembly will discuss the current ...

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Befitting his background as a former seminarian, Larry Kessler brought what friends saw as a saintly fervor to his role as the most active of Boston’s AIDS activists at the epidemic’s outset. “I was ...

ATLANTA, Oct. 16 -- The main scientific committee advising the federal government on the use of the smallpox vaccine today endorsed the idea of immunizing about 500,000 health care workers in at least ...