Dr. Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine for smallpox in 1796. Vaccines have helped protect people from serious diseases by building up the immune response. The practice of introducing small ...

Often called the Speckled monster, Smallpox was one of the most terrifying diseases known to humanity. In 18th-century Europe ...

After a series of disputes between American citizens, the courts have gone back and forth on how to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and many are not in favor of the vaccine mandates enacted ...

Jonas Salk, an epidemiologist who developed the polio vaccine in the 1950s. Prior to official vaccine trials, Salk tested the vaccine on himself and his family in 1953. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia ...

Vaccination campaigns have nearly eradicated some of the most deadly and transmissible diseases. However, against a backdrop of a rising tide of vaccine hesitancy, and U.S. leaders pulling global ...

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What is an RNA vaccine? RNA vaccines, or messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, are a relatively new type of vaccine that delivers mRNA molecules to human cells, instructing them to produce specific antigens.