A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President ...

"Smallpox killed more than 300 million people in the 20th century alone," claims Rico Blanco in a Jan. 1 Facebook post. Blanco states smallpox was never defeated with herd immunity — the ...

Warning - this story contains graphic images. In the summer of 1978, the last known case of smallpox was reported, claiming the life of 40-year-old medical photographer Janet Parker. But how did ...

For millennia, humanity has feared smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases that killed roughly 3 out of every 10 people it infected. One of the earliest documented cases was found on an ...

Here’s a look at smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease. The most severe and most common form of the smallpox virus is known as variola major. Initial symptoms include ...