Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

On my left arm is a large scar – about the size of a silver dollar (for those who remember when dollars were also coins). It’s what remains of my smallpox vaccination.

Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the ...

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Infection with smallpox requires close, prolonged personal contact; trivial contact usually does not result in spread of the disease. Spread by fomites, like infected clothing and bed linens, is ...

So what is the history of Smallpox? • 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.

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The smallpox vaccine, maintained by the CDC, is freeze-dried, live vaccinia virus. It is contained in a vial of 50 doses and stored at -20 degrees C. Vaccination has been successfully administered ...

Vaccination has protected humans from an ever-lengthening list of infectious diseases: polio, yellow fever, diphtheria, ...