Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus ...

Historians have long speculated that Europeans introduced smallpox to the Americas, which then killed hundreds of millions of ...

Researchers have recovered the first smallpox virus genomes ever identified in the Americas, providing evidence it was ...

According to a study published today in the journal Science, a team at Trinity College Dublin has identified the oldest viral ...

Until now, there had been no direct genetic evidence linking colonial-era outbreaks in the Americas to strains circulating in ...

In an incredible display of endurance, Bartłomiej Kubkowski undertook a monumental 160-kilometer swim from Sweden to Poland ...

The mummies of two people who lived in Chile more than 400 years ago carry DNA from smallpox, providing the first molecular ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have recovered and analyzed the first ancient smallpox virus genomes ever identified ...

Ancient DNA from Inca mummies is the first genetic proof that European colonists brought smallpox to the Americas. The post ...

Centuries-old DNA that was found in these mummies belongs to an extinct viral lineage of smallpox that was brought across the ...

(Anatoli Myshlyaev/Moment/Getty Images) Smallpox is an age-old scourge with a terrible history. Caused by the variola virus, ...