Vaccines on the childhood schedule have been tested in controlled trials involving millions of participants, and they are continuously monitored for safety after being rolled out. The schedule ...

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One of measles’ most deceptive traits is that most cases, especially in healthy people, are relatively mild. On the one hand, that means that many survive the disease without serious lingering effects ...

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Smallpox caused sores that could lead to scars or even death before vaccines and fierce efforts officially eradicated the disease on December 9, 1979.

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) -On December 9, 1979, a commission of scientists declare smallpox has been eradicated. The disease, ...

On Dec. 9, 1979, scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, a disease which killed an estimated 300 million ...

Disease historians have a problem. While examining samples of ancient human DNA, geneticists have come across genes belonging to the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, revealing that it ravaged ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an entry in Wikipedia, it is highly relevant today. Understanding the ...