This year it’s COVID-19. But years ago, particularly among Native Americans, the feared disease was smallpox. Bernie Webb, formerly of Carrington, N.D., and now of Gettysburg, S.D., sent a report ...

From eradicating smallpox to battling the COVID-19 pandemic, these vaccine pioneers have helped make colossal strides in ...

Revolutionary-era smallpox, the still-mysterious ignition of the Black Death, a modern measles outbreak shaped by community identity and distrust, and the promise of genetics to build safer drugs—a ...

BELGRADE, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Director Goran Markovic was among those lining up outside exhibition halls in Belgrade on Tuesday to receive a shot against COVID-19, almost 40 years after making a hit ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

On Jan. 13, 1904, Nora Rippeon emerged from her home near Mount Pleasant, pushing a gurney with a coffin on it. The coffin ...

A girl with polio meets one of the first children to get a polio vaccine. Bettmann/Getty Images By Elena Conis Graphics by Sara Chodosh and Aileen Clarke Dr. Conis is a historian of medicine and ...

ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis has a long history of being in the forefront of efforts to eradicate smallpox. One of the nation's first vaccine programs was in St. Louis, which, like many other parts of the ...

Historian Williams (Hurricane of Independence) explores a fascinating aside to American medical history—how “a Puritan minister and one lone doctor... stood up to the medical establishment” by ...

The center has live samples of Ebola and smallpox. Moscow -- A gas explosion shook a Soviet-era biological weapons lab in Siberia that houses samples of Ebola and smallpox on Monday. At least one ...