A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

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 an ...

SHELTON, CONNECTICUT / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / NanoViricides, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE Amer.:NNVC) (the “Company”), and a clinical stage, leading global pioneer in the ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a study to examine lessons learned from the recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and ...

Thanks in part to Army scientists, the world has gained a new weapon in the fight against one of history's most feared diseases: smallpox. A new vaccine approved on Sept. 24 by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Andrew Wehrman provides opening remarks for his lecture on how inoculation became a sought-after medical procedure in the 18th century and ...

The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution Andrew M. Wehrman Johns Hopkins Univ. Press (2022) It took some work to convince the physicians of 1720s Boston, ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug for treating smallpox, a response to experts' fears that the virus could be used as a bioweapon. TPOXX, or tecovirimat, is taken orally to ...

George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan. George Washington strikes a confident pose after the victorious Battle of Princeton in this iconic ...

For months now, the government has warned Americans to prepare themselves for a biological or chemical attack. President Bush decided that the risk of a smallpox outbreak was significant enough to ...

Smallpox was a severe infectious disease that affected humans for thousands of years before its eradication in the late 20th century. The symptoms included a distinctive rash, pustules, and fever.

When a virus that no one has ever seen before spreads across the globe in mere months, science must race to find answers to some very hard questions: How fast will COVID-19 proliferate? How many will ...