West Africans were not the only ones to practice smallpox inoculations before the 1700s. There are numerous accounts of North African, Arabian, and East Asian inoculators as well.

As explorers and fur traders entered the Pacific Northwest by the 1700s, so did smallpox. Today, experts describe the infectious disease’s blow to regional tribes as devastating, sometimes ...

Where were smallpox patients treated? Drummey said the smallpox cemeteries, which typically date from the mid-1700s to mid-1800s, show a departure from earlier practices in colonial New England.

Smallpox vaccines can protect against monkeypox, and U.S. has 100 million doses Two FDA-approved vaccines for smallpox are in the Strategic National Stockpile, one of many reasons this outbreak is ...

But it fails to point out the huge difference between forced military vaccinations for the 1770s smallpox virus with a mortality rate of 30% to 50% and forced vaccination for COVID-19 with a ...

On March 11, 1764, as smallpox once again raged through Boston, Storer penned a prayer in his journal after arranging to have his own children inoculated.

Smallpox was eradicated, but not before it sickened and killed millions worldwide. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the last natural outbreak of smallpox in the United ...

On March 11, 1764, as smallpox once again raged through Boston, Storer penned a prayer in his journal after arranging to have his own children inoculated. The deeply devout Storer, his diary shows ...