We spoke with Laurie Halse Anderson, recipient of the 2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, about her new middle grade novel, ...

the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the early history of this public health strategy. The eradication of smallpox ...

In this article, we'll uncover the history behind smallpox and its defeat, journey through the creation of the smallpox vaccine, unravel the mystery of how these scars form, address common ...

No matter where you look up the meaning of the word “plague”, it’s never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means “to cause continual distress”, yet as a noun ...

On this day in history, March 4, 1754, Benjamin Waterhouse, a pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, was born in Newport, Rhode ...

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