If you were to watch a split-screen broadcast with global weather on one side and world politics on the other, you could easily conclude that we are doomed. Prodigious storms and killer heat waves ...

In 1775, Washington deployed colonial soldiers who had survived smallpox to retake Boston during a city-wide epidemic.

Long before the pandemic of 2020, there was the fear of a smallpox outbreak during the American Civil War. Remarkably, modern researchers were able to find traces of the smallpox vaccine strains used ...

Smallpox, the only human infectious disease to have been successfully eradicated, ailed people at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study of DNA sampled from Viking Age skeletons ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an entry in Wikipedia, it is highly relevant today. Understanding the ...

The following is a brief history of vaccines starting with the first known vaccine (smallpox) to the vaccines that are being used now for COVID-19. 1796 — Smallpox vaccine. Edward Jenner used cowpox ...

The problem is not how much we talk about historical genocide, but how little rigorous historical research is used by those who support it.

Scientists went to extraordinary lengths to eradicate smallpox from the world. Rahima Banu is now recorded as having the last known... How Rahima came to hold a special place in smallpox history — and ...

As the United States struggles to distribute and administer COVID-19 vaccines, we’re looking back at the history of vaccine rollouts in our country, including the logistical roadblocks to shots and ...

Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, which can be spread though infectious droplets that are exhaled as people talk, cough, or sneeze. It seems like smallpox has infected humans for as long as ...