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How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back.
Slate via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAn 1884 oil painting by Eugène Ernest Hillemacher depicts English physician and scientist Edward...
How long it took to develop 13 vaccines in history
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA pharmacist prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.Jessica Hill/AP Photo Scientists raced to develop COVID-19 vaccines at record speed. Vaccines often...
U.S. has therapies, vaccines to protect against monkeypox: 'You can stop this pretty quickly'
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoWhen Covid-19 struck, humanity faced an out-of-control outbreak without vaccines or therapies. If it...
The great Georgetown vaccine fight: When a mob took to the streets to protest them
Delmarva Now | The Daily Times via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoCharles H. Wells, Delaware State Health Commissioner, was staying at Georgetown’s Brick Hotel when...
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 ...
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...
Monument honour for ‘one of the overlooked heroines in the history of medicine’
Press Association News via AOL· 5 months agoOne of the “overlooked heroines in the history of medicine” has been honoured 300 years after she...
Smallpox caused devastation among Northwest tribes including Eastern Washington Natives
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOct. 27—As explorers and fur traders entered the Pacific Northwest by the 1700s, so did smallpox. Today, experts describe the infectious disease's blow to regional tribes as devastating, sometimes ...
Polio Is Making a Comeback. Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers!
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf it seems like infectious diseases are coming at us faster, spreading more widely and persisting longer than they have in generations, it’s because...