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How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back.
Slate via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAn 1884 oil painting by Eugène Ernest Hillemacher depicts English physician and scientist Edward...
Royal Mint Experience visitors can now strike a £2 coin bearing King’s portrait
Press Association News via AOL· 1 year agoVisitors to the Royal Mint Experience will be able to strike a £2 denomination coin bearing the...
On This Day, May 14: U.S. launches Skylab into orbit
United Press International via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAn overhead view of the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit is pictured on February 8, 1974. The United States launched Skylab, its first manned...
Danielle Mehlenbacher, D.O.: The history and importance of vaccines
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe COVID-19 vaccine must almost be whispered in a crowded room these days because of the mixed opinions about it. The truth is vaccines have been controversial since their development. The ...
Human ‘challenge trials’ entail risk but they could be our best protection against the next pandemic
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoFifty years ago this month, as the seasonal smallpox epidemic raged to a peak in India, nobody knew...
Monument honour for ‘one of the overlooked heroines in the history of medicine’
Press Association News via AOL· 6 months agoOne of the “overlooked heroines in the history of medicine” has been honoured 300 years after she...
Famous birthdays for May 17: Karrueche Tran, Derek Hough
United Press International via Yahoo News· 1 month agoKarrueche Tran arrives for the 50th annual American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los...
Today in History: May 14, Freedom Riders attacked
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoToday in History Today is Sunday, May 14, the 134th day of 2023. There are 231 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 14, 1940, the Netherlands surrendered to invading German ...
How long it took to develop 13 vaccines in history
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA pharmacist prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.Jessica Hill/AP Photo Scientists raced to develop COVID-19 vaccines at record speed. Vaccines often...
How the sports world has fueled anti-vaccine conspiracies
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJohn Stockton. Illustrated | Getty Images The sudden cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills safety Damar...