SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Just prior to the Louisiana Purchase, early settlers in Mississippi and Louisiana had the ...

Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the ...

Mpox (monkeypox) is caused by a virus related to smallpox; both are members of the orthopox virus family. Mpox typically causes a rash with sores that can appear anywhere on the body. Sometimes the ...

Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another virus that is similar to the smallpox virus, yet different enough not to bring on the smallpox disease once it enters your body.

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They caused empires to fall and new ones to arise. Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago. We have no idea how many people it has killed, but we do that in the 20th century alone it killed ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Just prior to the Louisiana Purchase, early settlers in Mississippi and Louisiana had the ability to vaccinate themselves and the enslaved against smallpox, but it ...