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Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...
English physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796 while practicing as a country doctor in his native Gloucestershire. Photograph by The Print Collector, Getty ...
Opera can take many forms and fulfil many purposes: this chamber opera by Zakiya Leeming and Sam Redway is about vaccination.
Smallpox, once a deadly global scourge, became the first eradicated disease thanks to an accidental discovery by Edward ...
We often spend a great deal of time evaluating our options when buying a house or car. We should spend just as much effort ...
Public health is rarely glamorous. As with seatbelts, pool fences and speed limits, when your job is to prevent something happening, the credit is only theoretical.
In 1796, Jenner discovered that this procedure triggered immunity against smallpox. The specific term for what Lady Mary and Boylston were doing 75 years earlier is variolation, or inoculation ...
Vaccination campaigns are widely considered to be a public health success story. Since Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine in the 1700s, they’ve significantly reduced disease rates ...
Edward Jenner and two colleagues seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, the dead smallpox victims are littered at their feet. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808. Cruikshank, Isaac, ...
Kylie Jenner has gotten lip filler and a breast augmentation. Here's everything Kylie Jenner has said about her plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery.
After detailing her plastic surgery, Kylie Jenner has shared another beauty secret with fans. On Wednesday, June 4, the mom of two, 27, shared her blowout hack on TikTok.