Today we're talking about the Antonine Plague that took the lives of 5 million people over 14 years during the rule of Marcus Aurelius. Today, we're talking smallpox, war, false prophets, and ...

It was Edward Jenner, an Englishman, who would, in 1796, use cowpox to inoculate against smallpox. The word "vaccination" is from vaccinnia, the Latin term for the cowpox virus.

The World Health Organization declared smallpox officially eradicated in 1980. The smallpox vaccine is no longer administered routinely by any government, and there has not been a natural case ...

Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1980 and is not held in check by vaccines, contrary to posts suggesting the deadly virus may circulate again if vaccines become optional.

Smallpox virus has been stored at the CDC since the disease was eradicated in the 1970s. CDC scientists took the virus from the freezer several years ago, racing to learn as much as possible about ...

Evidence suggests that the smallpox vaccine can help prevent mpox infections and decrease the severity of the symptoms. One vaccine known as Imvamune or Imvanex is licensed in the U.S. to prevent ...

Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until it was completely eradicated from the Earth in the late 1970s, it is estimated that smallpox killed at least 300,000 people worldwide during the ...

Rahima Banu had the last recorded case of naturally occurring variola major smallpox, a deadly strain of the virus, in 1975. At left: Banu in her mother's arms as a small child. At right: Banu ...

Smallpox is still a threat to America, 40 years after its eradication by Tom Daschle & Fred Upton, opinion contributors - 03/01/24 1:00 PM ET BSIP/UIG via Getty Images ...

In Clip #12: Q&A About Smallpox, Inoculation, and the American Revolution (20:21), Wehrman discusses smallpox's use as a bioweapon, the lack of inoculation for the enslaved and Native Americans ...

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.