Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also has. This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine.

(You can see tell-tale signs that some older adults had a smallpox vaccine, because they have characteristic scars on their arms.) While the eradication of smallpox through vaccination has saved ...

PENGUIN PRESS, MARCH 2011 O ur skins record the histories of life’s close scrapes. One of the most common marks that humans carry is, we hope, bound for extinction: the nickel-sized cicatrix left by a ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus ... and forms a scab which separates within 14 to 21 days, leaving a scar (CDC, 2001; Henderson et al., 1999). Primary vaccination can produce ...

The first known victim of smallpox was Pharaoh Ramses V of Egypt, who died in 1157BC and whose mummy still bears the scars of the disease ... led to the first vaccine. He found that milkmaids ...

To create a vaccine that will protect you against a pathogen, you usually begin with that pathogen and alter it in some way. Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another ...

People who recover from the infection are often left with permanent scars and sometimes blindness ... funding from several sources to study immune responses to the smallpox virus and for vaccine ...

Meanwhile, a smallpox shot provides efficient protection against monkeypox, because both viruses are members of "one family." According to Lewis, people had had no effective protection against ...