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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 ...

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Before it was eradicated, 3 out of every 10 people who became infected with smallpox died, on average, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). IMMUNIZATION ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted expanded approval to Emergent BioSolutions' (EBS.N) smallpox vaccine for use in people at high risk of mpox infection.

Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until it was completely eradicated from the Earth in the late 1970s, it is estimated that smallpox killed at least 300,000 people worldwide during the ...

Indeed, smallpox was stopped. Still, in the all-consuming push to end the virus, public health writ large often failed to meet people's basic needs, such as housing or food.

For millennia, humanity has feared smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases that killed roughly 3 out of every 10 people it infected. One of the earliest documented cases was found on an ...

Smallpox inoculation coexisted with other forms of inoculation in these societies. For example, we find examples of enslaved Africans who hailed from present-day Ghana describing inoculations for ...

Researchers studying a smallpox outbreak in Yugoslavia in 1972 in which 175 were infected and 35 died found that 105 people, or 60% of those infected, were previously vaccinated for smallpox.

But even if there was enough smallpox vaccine to go around, experts say most people don’t need it—and that many questions remain about how it works against monkeypox.