Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also ...

Think of it as the very first vaccine passport, if you will: a scar that told everyone you had been successfully vaccinated against smallpox. And yep, you guessed it, it’s that very scar that my ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus ... and forms a scab which separates within 14 to 21 days, leaving a scar (CDC, 2001; Henderson et al., 1999). Primary vaccination can produce ...

People who recover from the infection are often left with permanent scars and sometimes blindness ... funding from several sources to study immune responses to the smallpox virus and for vaccine ...

To create a vaccine that will protect you against a pathogen, you usually begin with that pathogen and alter it in some way. Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another ...

Tell me about a new vaccine, and I’ll get it. The only vaccine problem I have experienced in my 91 years was to see a blister ...

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy noted that consuming alcohol increases the risk for "at least seven types of cancer" ...

[18] Of persons receiving their first dose of smallpox vaccine, 95% develop neutralizing antibodies or hemagglutination inhibition antibodies at a titer of ≥1:10 [2] However, the exact ...

In the late 19th Century, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in opposition to compulsory smallpox vaccinations. There were arrests, fines and people were even sent to jail.

Japan approves SIGA's TEPOXX, the first antiviral for orthopoxviruses, for smallpox, mpox, cowpox, and vaccine-related complications. Approval is based on 15 clinical trials and pivotal animal ...

A strong contemporary anti-vaccination movement ... survivors with disfiguring scars. It had long been known that after suffering from the disease, survivors of smallpox became immune from ...

and cowpox and to treat complications following smallpox vaccination. Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced topline ...