Tag: Smallpox

General George Washington in New York City in the spring of 1776 (Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institute)

On This Day: In New York, Washington faces the enemy within

Salena Zito · June 10, 2026 12:54 pm

George Washington.

On This Day: It is inevitable. The British are coming

Salena Zito · June 2, 2026 10:34 am

The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, by John Trumbull (1786). Image Source: Yale University Art Gallery.

On This Day: The siege of Quebec is collapsing

Salena Zito · May 8, 2026 10:18 am

Second Continental Congress president John Hancock's Beacon Hill home (which is visible in this panoramic watercolor of Boston by Richard Williams, 1775). In the aftermath of the siege of Boston, Gen. George Washington writes to him to give him the good news. (Photo courtesy of the Richard H Brown Revolutionary War map collection).

On This Day: Washington fears a smallpox outbreak as the British depart

Salena Zito · March 19, 2026 2:44 pm

Monkeypox, a member of the orthopox family of viruses, is an infection accidentally transmitted to humans due to its similarity to the smallpox virus.

US recorded 17 cases of monkeypox in May, mostly in gay and bisexual men: CDC

Cassidy Morrison · June 3, 2022 6:13 pm

UK constructing COVID-esque tracker for monkeypox

Christopher Hutton · May 26, 2022 3:01 pm

This electron microscopic (EM) image depicted a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.

Here’s what to know about the global monkeypox outbreak

Cassidy Morrison · May 24, 2022 11:00 am

Monkeypox, a member of the orthopox family of viruses, is an infection accidentally transmitted to humans due to its similarity to the smallpox virus.

Biden: Everyone ‘should be concerned’ about monkeypox

Christopher Hutton · May 22, 2022 1:47 pm

Christine Jelinek, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, works alongside a tray of vials containing cerebral spinal fluid in Baltimore on Aug. 10, 2015.

FBI and CDC investigating ‘smallpox’ vials found in Pennsylvania Merck laboratory

Elizabeth Faddis · November 17, 2021 8:14 pm

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Trent Reedy · March 13, 2020 3:00 am

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Coronavirus, super-plagues, and why we need nuclear deterrence against biological warfare

Tom Rogan · February 27, 2020 6:57 pm