In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel for young readers, a girl in Boston must survive a dangerous smallpox epidemic—and ...

All children and adults who are not vaccinated should get vaccinated unless there is a clear medical reason not to (which is not common). Smallpox is different. There is no more worldwide wild ...

Vaccination remains one of the most effective tools in modern medicine to protect newborns and children from serious ...

On the occasion of the World Immunisation Week, WHO Saima Wazed, Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia, shared insights on the goal of World Immunisation Week and elaborated on the 2025 theme-- ...

Members of the Tsilhqot'in Nation were at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Thursday calling for the ...

Prisoners and abandoned children had live smallpox virus, in the form of pus, inserted under their skin. If they survived, they were exposed several months later to the disease, which none of them ...

Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign ...

Smallpox was the most dreaded and deadliest disease known to humans. It spread fast because it was an airborne disease.

The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.

She said smallpox, residential schools and the Sixties Scoop — during which children were taken from their homes and adopted by predominantly non-Indigenous families — had all led to trauma in ...

For many American children, it's a rite of passage ... when the British government mandated smallpox vaccinations. Objections varied over time. Some expressed concerns that the government should not ...

I know how to give a cootie shot.” She demonstrated on her own shoulder, her technique a bit of a blur. The kids and their ...