In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel for young readers, a girl in Boston must survive a dangerous smallpox epidemic—and ...

Smallpox was followed by influenza, measles, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases, each of which Australia’s Aboriginal people had no resistance to. This cocktail of diseases Europeans first ...

Spillover from the politicization of the COVID pandemic has eroded vaccine confidence, but everyday people can play a role in ...

Since Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine in the 1700s, they’ve significantly reduced disease rates around the world and are credited with saving millions of lives—primarily in low ...

Starz's Outlander, the historical fantasy show based on Diana Gabaldon's book series of the same name, featured the magical stones of Craigh Na Dun which made time traveling possible for Claire (Caitr ...

Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp.’s TNXP share price has surged by 7.99%, which has investors questioning if this is right ...

Over the past 80 years, through peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, the United Nations has saved countless people from the hell of war and displacement, from diseases such as smallpox and ...

The two men weren't the first non-Natives to visit the area: Spanish explorers and then British and American fur traders sailed up the coast in the late 1700s, bringing epidemics of smallpox that ...

Sheltered as a boy in Virginia— his schooling took place at home because his parents feared exposing him to smallpox—he cut ... in England by the early 1700s. Queen Anne opened the royal ...