Cases have now popped up in at least 19 states, including Kentucky and Georgia. That’s near enough to home for me to start ...

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 ...

Like most kids of my era, I got the recommended vaccines with one exception — she skipped smallpox because ... t want me to have the telltale scar that the vaccine left behind.

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 ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case ...

The chickenpox vaccine protects against the highly contagious varicella-zoster virus, which results in a rash and potentially ...

[This was probably a small-pox vaccine as there were outbreaks in the county.] The Cantata of Esther is under rehearsal by our amateurs and will be rendered before the public in a short time.

A small company developing a new shingles vaccine announced Monday that the venture capitalist Moncef Slaoui, who previously ran the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine effort ...

I believe strongly that vaccine use in the 20th and 21st centuries has cut down dramatically on death and disease and has saved hundreds of millions of lives, beginning with the smallpox vaccine ...