Doctors waged a vaccination campaign to wipe out smallpox which succeeded by the late 1970s. • All nations were asked to destroy stocks of the virus or hand them to high-security installations ...

13, 2024 — An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to ...

Background Mpox emerged as a significant global public health concern during the 2022–2023 outbreak, impacting populations in ...

Jan. 31, 2025 — In a new study, researchers have determined that a protein called NF-kB c-Rel can intensify the symptoms of psoriasis when activated by signals from the body's immune system ...

A rgentina’s president has ordered the country to pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), following the lead of like ...

Amid concerns about global health threats, the World Health Organization remains the most important platform for cooperation ...

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The three-signal model provides an empirical framework for innate instruction of adaptive immunity, but mainly discusses STAT-dependent cytokines in T cell activation and differentiation, while the ...

The two most senior executives at the World Health Organization have hit back at decisions by President Donald Trump to withdraw from the global health agency and suspend US foreign aid. Most Read fro ...

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Honourable Chair, Dr Jerome Walcott, Honourable Ministers, dear colleagues and friends, Good morning, happy New Year, and welcome once again to your WHO headquarters. As you know, for me 2024 ended ...