Following Rich's dad's death, Henry Patterson, in 2023, we received a veteran's flag from the funeral home honoring Dad's ...

The signers acknowledged that leaders of their professions had previously condemned a street protest against lockdown ...

On my left arm is a large scar – about the size of a silver dollar (for those who remember when dollars were also coins). It’s what remains of my smallpox vaccination.

The common name, mad dog skullcap, bears some explanation. It was previously thought that skullcap was able to cure and prevent rabies. The claims were disproven. Native Americans did, however, use ...

Today we're talking about the Antonine Plague that took the lives of 5 million people over 14 years during the rule of Marcus Aurelius. Today, we're talking smallpox, war, false prophets, and ...

Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a ...

A Blueprint for Preparedness The coordinated global health effort that beat smallpox once, offers a blueprint for addressing future threats. The world has changed dramatically over the last 50 years, ...

The smallpox vaccine was prepared by scarification of calves followed by collection of drained lymph fluid. [18] Each lot of vaccine varies in concentration, with a mean titer of 10 8.1 pock ...

Smallpox has been designated as a category A biological weapon because it is easily transmittable, has a high mortality rate, would likely cause panic and social disruption, and requires special ...

Salem Police responded to a stabbing incident involving 12 people at Union Gospel Mission of Salem on the evening of June 1. A suspected was arrested.