Executing a killer

Should the remaining two stocks of the smallpox virus be wiped out permanently from the face of the earth? The question, which brings to fore …

Spent force

Billions of dollars, 50 years later

Small pox vaccine might have countered HIV  

Reprieve for the killer

Smallpox virus stocks to be kept for research until 2002

Pox Americana

Is the West a victim of its own past?

India declared polio free; no new case in 3 years

Children in the country will, however, continue to be vaccinated against the disease to maintain immunity

Ethics before profits: What it will take to have global access to COVID-19 vaccine

Experts worry that any COVID-19 vaccine is likely to have a high price tag and, as a result, be unequally distributed 

Should smallpox virus specimens be destroyed or retained?

World Health Assembly to take a call on two remaining specimens in upcoming meet even as some scientists urge against their destruction; two …