At the end of the 20th century, a historian named Ward L. Churchill claimed that the smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838, which wiped out tens of thousands of Indigenous Americans in North Dakota, ...

Child mortality has been halved in the last 25 years. Building on this progress, new innovations in immunization are working ...

Secretary Kennedy’s latest maneuver seeks to expand vaccine injury lawsuits, echoing a precarious time in U.S. history when ...

The recent global monkeypox (mpox) outbreak, with a new and aggressive variant, has underscored the dire need for safe, broadly effective, and accessible vaccines. The LC16m8 vaccine, an ...

LORNE LARSON, Smallpox outbreaks and immunization policies in Tanzania from the late nineteenth century to the First World War, Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (DECEMBER ...

Vaccine hesitancy is not a new phenomenon. Strict enforcement of vaccination requirements in England following an 1863 smallpox outbreak led to mass resistance to the vaccine and the formation of ...

Some parents are hesitating to vaccinate children against the measles in the Rockford region. Here is what is behind the trend.

An off-the-shelf drug developed for smallpox, a cousin of mpox, proved safe for mpox patients but ineffective at curing the disease. ... The U.S. saw more than 20,000 mpox cases and nearly six dozen ...