Smallpox is caused by variola virus (VARV), an orthopoxvirus of the Poxviridae family. Smallpox was notoriously reputed to have caused the deaths of hundreds of millions to billions of people from ...

I picked this book up with eager anticipation and put it down with a mixture of admiration and disappointment. Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals ...

Vaccines are commonly made of killed, weakened, or parts of a virus which can stimulate the body's immune system. Normally, in response to vaccine administration, immunoglobulins are formed which ...

Use the sterile petri dish to collect fluid from pustules on the cow's udder. To create a vaccine that will protect you against a pathogen, you usually begin with that pathogen and alter it in ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Just prior to the Louisiana Purchase, early settlers in Mississippi and Louisiana had the ability to vaccinate themselves and the enslaved against smallpox, but it ...