smallpox

Comey Firing Aftermath; Ransomware Attack; the Poetry of Pop
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DNA
Health
Modern-day tribes still carry traces of colonial devastation in their DNA
Geo Washington painting Valley Forge
Books
How the 1721 Boston smallpox epidemic changed medicine, launched a free press and helped win the American Revolution
Health
Why 21st-century anti-vaxxers have nothing on their 18th-century counterparts
Innoculation always prompts anxiety. Here's how France dealt with it three centuries ago.
Culture
How France used fashion to spread the message to vaccinate
Global Scan
Is the US secretly training Syria’s rebels?
Smaillpox virus
Environment
Should the last samples of smallpox virus be saved?
Health & Medicine
Killing a killer disease
Health & Medicine
Lessons from smallpox eradication
Arts, Culture & Media
Remembering Ali Maow Maalin, the Last Person in the World to Contract Smallpox
Global Politics
Forum: How to Kill a Killer Disease
Little-Known Disease Rinderpest is Eliminated
Smallpox
Global Politics
Debate ensues over destruction of Smallpox
Arts, Culture & Media
Thirty years after the eradication of smallpox
Health & Medicine
Swine flu: a look back on the crisis that wasn’t