Oregon has a long history of unsuccessfully trying to eradicate invasive species. The state came within one day of announcing ...

After more than a year of politicized science and amid a wave of vaccine hesitancy, the long war against Covid-19 stands at a critical stage. Hope for an eradication akin to smallpox – or even a polio ...

In Taiwan, the HBV vaccination programme began in 1984. Pregnant women undergo antenatal screening for HBsAg, and the babies of positive mothers are immunized within 24 h of birth with HBsAg and with ...

Smallpox is an acute, febrile, contagious disease caused by the variola virus, which is a member of the family Poxviridae. Until the 1970s, smallpox had been a pandemic disease for more than 3000 ...

The Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (ABWEF) board of directors voted to authorize the distribution of a $1 per acre cash rebate to growers for assessments paid on the 2025 cotton ...

It’s a scene that continues to unfold in Washington state: A helicopter hovers low over the trees, deep inside a park in the Cascade Mountains; a SWAT team dressed in Kevlar rappels from the chopper ...

The latest goal for the end of polio transmission will almost certainly not be met, according to a frank and concerning report about the future of the decades-long polio eradication effort that was ...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly announced a very ambitious goal: Polio was to be vanquished by the year 2000. It was a reach, sure, but feasible. Although highly infectious, polioviruses affect ...

SACRAMENTO -- With California's four-year-old legal marijuana market in disarray, the state's top prosecutor said Tuesday that he will try a new broader approach to disrupting illegal pot farms that ...

Fire ants have been found at bushwalking mecca Binna Burra in the Gold Coast hinterland but authorities insist they are on ...