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

Opera can take many forms and fulfil many purposes: this chamber opera by Zakiya Leeming and Sam Redway is about vaccination.

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

Smallpox, once a deadly global scourge, became the first eradicated disease thanks to an accidental discovery by Edward ...

It was not a risk-free operation. You get similar reactions to the first true vaccine against cowpox [which was used to confer smallpox immunity] that starts to get disseminated in 1798.

Boston.com sat down with Weissman for a Q&A about vaccine development, vaccine hesitancy, governmental involvement, and the prospect of another pandemic.

Indian research institutes and vaccine manufacturers responded to the emergency and came up with a bouquet of vaccines that helped save lives not only in India, but in many countries across the ...

Japan approves SIGA's TEPOXX, the first antiviral for orthopoxviruses, for smallpox, mpox, cowpox, and vaccine-related complications. Approval is based on 15 clinical trials and pivotal animal ...

Also in Slate: Jonas Salk didn’t patent the polio vaccine, but Google Doodles—like today’s on Salk—are patented. On April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent ...

The piece, dated Oct. 11, points to monkeypox, smallpox and cowpox being listed on the WHO’s VigiAccess website under the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as evidence that the WHO has admitted ...

ust prior to the Louisiana Purchase, early settlers in Mississippi and Louisiana had the ability to vaccinate themselves and the enslaved against smallpox, but it appears that they did not share ...

A century later, in the 1790s, in England, Edward Jenner invented the cowpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine, an advancement that would transform how smallpox was treated worldwide.