Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today's ...
A new study published in Zoonoses describes the procedure from preparation of tick homogenates to identification of virus isolation using the suckling mouse inoculation method. The transient and ...
WITH the world’s attention on vaccines, now feels like a good moment to sing the praises of an often forgotten contributor to their development. Three hundred years ago this month, Lady Mary Wortley ...
Dr. Benjamin Franklin became a passionate advocate for smallpox inoculation after his son died of the disease in 1736. The great scourge of Thomas Jefferson’s era (1743-1826) was smallpox. Historians ...
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