Anthony Comstock would stop at nothing to rid the world of explicit photos, birth control, and anything else he deemed a ...

Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Smallpox Vaccine, 1800-1820 The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition was a project of the Enlightenment, and its resulting documentation endorses the ...

The first smallpox vaccination administered One of the most important discoveries of the 1800s was the creation of smallpox vaccination. May 14, 1796, was a crucial day as the first smallpox ...

In the early 1800s, some people rejected the smallpox vaccine because they didn’t trust the doctors and scientists promoting them, or because they saw vaccines as an affront to God’s will, or ...

Our thanks to Tom Swanky for his extensively-researched book The True Story Of Canada’s “War” of Extermination on the Pacific and The Smallpox War Against the Haida, available at www.shawnswanky.com.

Throughout the ages, smallpox, now known to be caused by a virus, was a serious, and often deadly, disease that had spread worldwide. It appeared in Europe sometime between the 5 th and 7 th ...

Waning smallpox immunity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has contributed to a significant increase in mpox cases over the last 15 years, but a study suggests there are also other causes ...

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Glasgow was plagued by "frequent and devastating" outbreaks. Between 1783 and 1800, smallpox was responsible for 20% of all deaths in the city.

Soviet defectors later revealed the truth — the U.S.S.R. had experimented with smallpox as a possible biological weapon. Public health officials had to consider whether the U.S. could withstand such ...

In early 1991, several scientists went deep into the Siberian tundra on a covert mission. They worked for a secret laboratory funded by the Soviet government, and they needed a sample of variola major ...

For instance, DNA recovered from the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun (1332–1323 BC) led to the discovery he suffered from malaria, along with several other New Kingdom mummies (circa 1800 BC).