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On Aug. 2, 1892, fear, racism and a smallpox outbreak fuelled a violent attack on Calgary’s first Chinese community, on the ...

After a man who traveled by bus from Mexico City to New York City in 1947 was hospitalized and died of smallpox, the city embarked on a vaccination spree so successful that it's now the stuff of ...

The appeals court held that the government may require COVID-19 shots based purely on the benefits to recipients.

That vaccination [for smallpox] has been tested and it can last. With polio, you have to give a number of different shots, and you have to have refrigeration, otherwise it doesn’t last.

Should a smallpox attack occur before then, health officials will rely on stockpiles of two older smallpox vaccines, called Dryvax and Aventis Pasteur, which were produced 20 to 30 years ago.

Smallpox vaccine trials date back to 1796, when British physician Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids exposed to a milder relative of smallpox, dubbed “cowpox,” were protected against the ...

Samples of DNA from Viking Age DNA skeletons identified the presence of smallpox 1,000 years earlier than previously understood – in 11 individuals living in Northern Europe between 600 and 1050 AD.

Government intelligence reports warn of the possibility of bioterrorist attacks involving smallpox. This possibility, coupled with the potential for military action against Iraq, which is thought ...

The vials of smallpox, which apparently date to the 1950s, were "immediately secured" in a CDC containment lab, according to a CDC statement. NIH officials alerted the CDC about the smallpox July 1.

No smallpox has been found in Iraq, and as far as we know, Saddam didn't have any. But if he did once possess smallpox, its absence now is not necessarily a good thing.