In the early 18th century, Lady Mary Wortley Monta... ...articularly fascinated by the way they controlled smallpox : by a process called variolation. Fifty years bef... ...she also had her own children inoculated against smallpox . But the idea of purposely giving someone a dise... ...rcent of people who we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/21/How-an-Early-Travel-Writer-Became-an-Immunization-Pioneer/SHAKERSWhat was it? An 18th-century offshoot of th... ...ndcraft a line of simple yet functional jet packs! SMALLPOX What was it? Smallpox caused hundreds of millions of deaths during the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/10/27/Four-Things-That-Havent-Died-Out-Yet/Smallpox is considered to be a leading factor in the Europ... ...1797. King Charles IV had lost family members to smallpox , and was excited to use Jenner's technique to pro... ...ner's technique to protect his subjects. To fight smallpox in the Spanish colonies, he sent a shi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/19/Bring-Smallpox-Vaccination-to-the-New-World/You might be surprised to learn that Benjamin Fran... ...specific circumstances surrounding the death from smallpox of their four-year-old son Francis. Read that sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/What-Led-Benjamin-Franklin-to-Live-Estranged-From-His-Wife-for-Nearly-Two-Decades/Diseases brought by Europeans wiped out 90% of the... ...ivilization left us with plague, typhus, cholera, smallpox , and other diseases, but no “Americapox.&rd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/29/Americapox-The-Missing-Plague/If you have any interest in science and public hea... ...es. Edward Jenner is credited with developing the smallpox vaccine, but he was far from the first to use the... ...ldquo;variolation,” from the Latin name for smallpox , Variola. (Later generations used “variolat... ...ion.)Variolation usual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/19/Princesses-Slaves-and-Explosives-The-Scandalous-Origin-of-Vaccines/During the first year of the Revolutionary War, th... ...y War, the Continental Army lost more troops from smallpox than from battle. The disease swept through commu... ...ed with a technique for protecting people against smallpox , he would not then use it, partly because it was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/06/George-Washington-the-First-Vaxxer/We’ve been telling you for years that the on... ...rsquo;ve been telling you for years that the only smallpox left in the world were two laboratory repositorie... ...box containing six glass vials of variola virus ( smallpox ) samples that had been there who-knows-how long.T... ...ad been there who-know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/08/Forgotten-Vials-of-Smallpox-Found-in-Storage-Room/An estimated 300 million people died from the smallpox virus in the 20th century. Then a was developed,... ...only live variola samples, the virus that causes smallpox , are isolated in laboratories at the CDC in Atlan... ...e was diagnosed in 1977, and today, the risk of a smallpox...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/04/Should-We-Destroy-the-Last-Smallpox-Virus/Scientists and health officials are pretty certain... ...and health officials are pretty certain that the smallpox virus exists in only two places in the world: at... ...and for all. A list of pros and cons for keeping smallpox
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/is-it-time-to-destroy-the-last-smallpox-stores/