Smallpox
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Quebec health officials say province now has 184 confirmed monkeypox casesMonkeypox is transmitted through prolonged close contact via respiratory droplets, direct contact with skin lesions or bodily fluids, or through contaminated clothes or bedding.CanadaJun 23, 2022
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1st case of Monkeypox reported in London, Ont.On Monday, the Middlesex London Health Unit reported the first identified case of monkeypox in the London, Ont., region.HealthJun 13, 2022
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Quebec confirms cases of monkeypox now at 15Health officials say in most cases, monkeypox will disappear on its own within two to four weeks, although in very rare cases complications can arise.HealthMay 24, 2022
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History shows COVID-19 may fade out, but likely won’t disappearEven with a successful vaccine and effective treatment, COVID-19 may never go away, history professor Nükhet Varlik says.CommentaryOct 17, 2020
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Explosion at Russian lab housing smallpox, Ebola and other diseases: reportsThe explosion reportedly occurred at a lab in Russia, one of only two places in the world known to have a stock of the smallpox virus.WorldSep 17, 2019
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FDA approves drug for smallpox nearly 40 years after disease was eradicated — here’s whySmallpox has not technically been wiped off the planet as some stocks of the virus that cause it still exist in labs in the United States and in Russia.HealthJul 17, 2018
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Should Montreal’s Amherst Street be renamed after Jacques Parizeau?Is it time to change the name of a Montreal street that honours a British officer who ordered the spread of smallpox during the Pontiac War?CanadaJun 4, 2015
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Bestiality and human-cow hybrids: The original anti-vax movementOpposition to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself. One early argument: Vaccination against smallpox, which used cowpox, would give people characteristics of cattle - like a sexual appetite for other cattle.Data DeskFeb 17, 2015
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FDA: Scientist who found forgotten smallpox uncovered 300 additional vialsThe same federal scientist who uncovered forgotten vials of smallpox also found over 300 undocumented vials at the same lab, according to the FDA.HealthJul 16, 2014
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