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...

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...

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...

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...

Diseases brought by Europeans wiped out 90% of the...  ...ivilization left us with plague, typhus, cholera, smallpox , and other diseases, but no “Americapox.&rd...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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