In 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a program of world-wide eradication of smallpox through mass immunization and the vigorous containment of outbreaks. The last naturally occurring ...
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This day in history: The first smallpox vaccine test
Often called the Speckled monster, Smallpox was one of the most terrifying diseases known to humanity. In 18th-century Europe ...
"How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that's precisely what it is: a ...
A new look at one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in history, which rapidly eradicated smallpox in Copenhagen in the early 1800s, has uncovered possible lessons for boosting vaccine ...
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