I’ve always admired medical wizards who, in dire circumstances like the recent COVID-19 epidemic, somehow come up with ...

Opera can take many forms and fulfil many purposes: this chamber opera by Zakiya Leeming and Sam Redway is about vaccination.

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

Smallpox, once a deadly global scourge, became the first eradicated disease thanks to an accidental discovery by Edward ...

The force was soundly defeated. “The smallpox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians, and Indians together,” Massachusetts statesman John Adams despairingly wrote in 1776.

The last smallpox case in Australia was during World War I. The disease, however, continued to flourish around the world, particularly in poorer countries without access to the vaccine. It was only in ...

Smallpox variolation is another way of describing smallpox inoculation, and we know that Cotton Mather learned it from an enslaved man named Onesimus.

Smallpox Vaccination History Before the smallpox vaccine existed, variolation – direct exposure to smallpox sores – was the usual immunization method. Material from smallpox sores was inhaled ...

A gruesome killer for centuries, smallpox did not discriminate—killing kings and commoners alike—until an English doctor found a way to stop the disease: vaccination.