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 ...

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(Original Caption) Smallpox in an unvaccinated child. Is it finally time to eliminate the remaining stocks of variola (smallpox) virus for good? The World Health Assembly will discuss the current ...

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined. Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until ...

It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

If you watched the riveting HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you surely recall the scene in which his wife, Abigail, inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from ...

Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease's twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health Organization. I was a college student fascinated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Foege in 1990: although his worldwide vaccination scheme initially met with some resistance, it was crucial to the worldwide ...