If you’ve watched the HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you probably recall the scene in which his wife Abigail inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from ...

When a smallpox epidemic struck Vancouver Island in 1862, colonial authorities set in motion a plan that led to the deaths of ...

There used to be a radio news commentator in America in the old days ... I'm here to tell you there's good news tonight. Smallpox is dead everywhere in the world. The natural thing is to say ...

In a year when one presidential candidate endorses vaccines, another is ambivalent and a third is staunchly opposed, it’s worth remembering that immunization played a key role in America’s War ...

They caused empires to fall and new ones to arise. Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago. We have no idea how many people it has killed, but we do that in the 20th century alone it killed ...