The early histories of smallpox and measles - and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine - will be under the microscope of a new research project. Pustules, Palaeogenetics ...

With the recent pandemic and the still-spreading Covid-19 virus, inoculation has become a hot topic throughout several areas of the world. Regardless of what side you’re on, the history of inoculation ...

Recently a Connecticut bus driver came down with smallpox. His three children caught it; so did a visitor; so did a person in another house, where the infected visitor took to his bed. The bus ...

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In southern New York state, a dairyman, his wife and their hired man stretched out their hands palm upwards, like suppliants, to Dr. H. P. Senftner, associate director of the state department of ...

A Nov. 15 Facebook post from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for ...

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A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

Opinion: The nomination of RFK Jr. as HHS secretary threatens to undermine decades of scientific progress, risking the health of future generations. Last week, President-elect Donald Trump announced ...

Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with patient zero for... It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s ...