BEIJING - A follow-up inoculation plan has been issued by the National Health Commission and the State Drug Administration for people who have received rabies vaccines from Changchun Changsheng Life ...

The English doctor Thomas Dimsdale was nervous. It was the evening of October 12, 1768, and Dimsdale was preparing the empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, for her procedure. From a technical ...

THE MOST dramatic showdown between humans and smallpox probably took place in Europe in the 18th century. The disease had by then been gathering momentum for a couple of hundred years, and despite the ...

Megan R. Gunnar, Laurie Brodersen, Kent Krueger and Joseph Rigatuso Changes in cortisol and behavioral responses were examined longitudinally in 83 infants (39 girls, 44 boys) tested at their ...

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 ...

This column is an instalment in our series Apocalypse Then, in which cultural historian Ainsley Hawthorn examines the issues of COVID-19 through the lens of the past. Modern vaccines seem like the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks in part to Washington’s inoculation decision and the soldiers who got inoculated, Americans don’t spell “honor” with a “u” as the British do This letter was submitted by David Jones, a former ...