Princess Devajammani of Mysore was a young royal who became the face of an early 19th-century vaccination campaign, helping ...

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The protagonists of Carrell's book - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston - were shunned because they introduced small amounts of smallpox into their children's skin as a way of ...

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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 ...

Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox in the teeth of Viking skeletons—proving for the first time that the killer disease plagued humanity for at least 1400 years. Smallpox spread ...

Smallpox was a terrible scourge on humanity, killing hundreds of millions of people over the centuries. But its origin remains obscure. Egyptian mummies from 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, including that ...

Smallpox was a terrible scourge on humanity, killing hundreds of millions of people over the centuries. But its origin remains obscure. Egyptian mummies from 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, including that ...

When the World Health Organization announced in 1980 that smallpox had been eradicated, it was considered a great victory for public health — and as a result, vaccination against smallpox became ...

Susan Dentzer reports on the administration's plans to prevent an smallpox outbreak should it be used as a form of bioterrorism. Until it was eradicated in 1980, smallpox had long been one of humanity ...

A highly contagious disease originating far from America's shores triggers deadly outbreaks that spread rapidly, infecting the masses. Shots are available, but a divided public agonizes over getting ...