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 ...
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 ...