Known for its signature blisters and gruesome deaths, smallpox killed 300 million people in the 20th century and has long been a scourge of humanity. But how long? Scientists have argued that it ...

The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have ... but we do that in the 20th century alone it killed around 500 million people. Smallpox was introduced to the Americas by ...

A smallpox epidemic killed between 5 and 8 million of the native population in the following two years. Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable ...

Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than ... in the second half of the 20th century. No insight is given ...

Historically, 30 percent of cases progressed to death. The end was ... a bout with the virus. Smallpox was the single deadliest disease during the 18th century, striking commoners and royalty ...