A collaborative research effort between the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC) has provided new insights into the ...

Whether or not it will be heeded, one of the key learnings from COVID-19 is that preparedness planning for future infectious disease outbreaks cannot be shortchanged. And while the pandemic continues ...

NDORMS DPhil student Rabia Khan has led a collaborative project to digitize historic records from the world's last naturally ...

Scientists have made significant progress in developing an animal model of smallpox that closely resembles human disease, which will be necessary for testing of future vaccines and potential ...

A duo from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have developed a means of determining whether the CAST/EiJ rodent model is susceptible to infection by variola virus (VARV), the ...

Research that enhances the safety, efficacy, and utility of smallpox diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics provides a public health benefit in the context of smallpox readiness and has added ...

Smallpox was recorded around Port Jackson in April 1789, 16 months after the First Fleet established a British colony at Sydney Cove. A study published in Nature Human Behaviour places the probable ...