I remember the first time I read the words of the Frenchman Charles Arthaud: “Inoculation, which will surely surprise you, is known and practiced amongst the Negres in some parts of Africa.” By the ...

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

At the time of the American Revolution, smallpox posed one of the most significant health threats to the citizens of the 13 colonies. The highly communicable virus had already become common in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louisiana Purchase was still two years away. Natchez was pretty much the wild, wild west on the frontier of a young United ...

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel in Tel Aviv, following the end of the ...

A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

It was late November of 1801, and William C. C. Claiborne arrived in Natchez only a few months before a smallpox epidemic hit the Mississippi Territory. Claiborne had just been appointed to his ...

If you watched the riveting HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you surely recall the scene in which his wife, Abigail, inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from ...

A Nov. 15 Facebook post from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for ...