ON JANUARY 15, 1947, the Army Hospital at Wiesbaden, Germany, received a patient with the presumptive diagnosis of smallpox. The patient, a War Department civilian employee, was transferred by ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

He told McCormick that he wanted the people of Natchez to build a hospital for patients who had smallpox and had been forced ...

Currently, there are no specific treatments for persons infected with smallpox. Patients who become infected are given supportive medical treatment and antibiotics to prevent secondary bacterial ...

Today there is mounting concern about the threat of a bioterrorist attack using smallpox—so much concern that in October 2001 the American government decided to order enough vaccine to protect ...

and pressing it into a cut on his arm. Later, Jenner gave Phipps pus from a smallpox patient, a potentially deadly risk. But the boy didn’t get sick! The cowpox inoculations saved him from smallpox.

and then exposed the boy to pus from a smallpox patient. The boy didn’t develop smallpox and Jenner created the term “vaccination” from the Latin for cow, vaccus, to describe this practice.

He told McCormick that he wanted the people of Natchez to build a hospital for patients who had smallpox and had been forced to leave the town and reside in the woods. “I must confess ...