To be fair, smallpox vaccination was far from perfectly safe in the late 19th century. Even Jenner himself couldn’t explain how his vaccine worked, and some methods (such as passing infectious ...

Patients faced punishment too if they failed to comply with quarantines, the most common way for dealing with illness during the nineteenth century ... were fumigated. Smallpox killed 221 people ...

There were some hiccups in smallpox vaccination as the 19th century progressed — moral stigmatization due to cases of syphilis inadvertently transmitted with vaccination, the scarce ...

He and his father were charged with being illegal immigrants. As the months ticked by, Alta California’s first smallpox epidemic began sweeping through the territory. Pattie’s father also died ...

In the early 19th century, British people finally had access to the first vaccine in history, one that promised to protect them from smallpox, among the deadliest diseases of the era. Many Britons ...

Smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal ... due to the circumstances of its environment. Since the early 19th century, the site and its mummies were most likely disturbed, according to Italian ...

Yet in the past, smallpox vaccination was hotly contested ... words of “experts” who support their narrative. In the 19th century, vaccination debates often brought in a similar small circle ...

The smallpox story is a sobering reminder of ... and epidemics would periodically spike in London through much of the 19th century. The disease was widespread in South America, Africa and Asia ...

Many Mississippi Territory settlers were saved from smallpox in the early 19th century because of actions taken by William C.

When the United States suffered a great wave of smallpox outbreaks at the turn of the 20th century, the public health field was in its infancy. Compulsory vaccinations were haphazard and often ...

Many Mississippi Territory settlers were saved from smallpox in the early 19th century because of actions taken by William C. C. Claiborne. There is no question that he implemented smallpox ...

The smallpox story is a sobering reminder of ... and epidemics would periodically spike in London through much of the 19th century. The disease was widespread in South America, Africa and Asia ...