Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Vaccinia virus (VACV) confers cross-protective immunity against the variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, and has therefore been ...

"We would like to be in the middle." Smallpox, which is caused by the variola virus, was a highly contagious disease with a fatality rate between 30% and 97%. Historical records suggest it began ...

Poxviruses are a family of large, double-stranded DNA viruses, which include variola virus (smallpox), monkeypox ... of late poxvirus mRNA translation. "We showed that the RP composition does ...