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Vaccine
You Should Read These Three Books on History and Infect...
If you want to learn a little more about history in general, and infectious dise...
While Madagascar Records a Historic Measles Epidemic, A...
Madagascar is dealing with a large and deadly measles epidemic due to the inacce...
Randomized Clinical Trials for Vaccine Safety, Efficacy...
Some of the misinformation regarding vaccines includes an argument that vaccines...
Pilgrimage to the Temple of Vaccinia
In recent years, we have posted a blog about survivals of early smallpox scabs i...
All of the Candidates for President of the United State...
Buzzfeed News recently made an assessment of the 2020 presidential candidates’ s...
Video: "Mission, Measles" from C-SPAN
C-SPAN recently posted this video of a Public Health Service and Merck collabora...
The Economics of Immunizations
A few days ago, we posted about the measles epidemic in Madagascar and how the n...
Even Bats Need Vaccines
White-Nose Syndrome may be controlled via new vaccines given to bats through the...
Hepatitis A Outbreaks in the United States
Hepatitis A outbreaks (epidemics) have been declared in multiple places in the U...
Despite a Successful Vaccine, Ebola in Democratic Repub...
Despite early success with a vaccine against Ebola, the outbreak in Democratic R...
History of Vaccines in the News
Dr. Najera, the editor of History of Vaccines, has been interviewed by news outl...
History of Vaccines at the Kensington Derby and Arts Fe...
We had the pleasure of hosting a table at the Kensington Derby and Arts Festival...
Chickenpox Vaccine and Shingles Risk
New research is showing that children are protected form chickenpox and from shi...
Celebrities Have Influence on Vaccination
Celebrities like Presidents and actors can have a lot of influence on what vacci...
More Evidence That Vaccine Policy Is Political
Political fights over vaccine requirements are not new, but they still make it d...
The Anti-Vaccine Misinformation You Read on Twitter Pro...
In real life and on the internet, it seems that the goal of anti-vaccine misinfo...
Influenza Season Strikes Early in Australia
Influenza season has started early and heavy in Australia. Here is a synthesis o...
Measles Cases Top 1,000 in the First 5 Months of 2019
The number of measles cases in the United States is the highest it has been in a...
You Should Watch This Student Documentary on Polio
Students at the Upper Arlington High School in Columbus, Ohio, put together a do...
Farm Animals and Pets Also Need Vaccines
New vaccines against diseases that affect farm animals like swine and cows are a...
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Expand...
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend that men up ...
With More Deaths in a Younger Population, Measles Is Af...
More deaths from measles than from Ebola have been reported in the Democratic Re...
Where People Go, Diseases Follow
Infectious diseases have been with humans from the very beginning, and they trav...
Welcome to the New Blog Format!
The new version of the History of Vaccines blog is now live! Check it out!
Questions About Vaccination on the US Census?
What questions will be included in the 2020 census in the United States has beco...
Video: “Fake news and real fears in the war over vaccin...
BBC Population Reporter Stephanie Hegarty traveled to Italy to talk to different...
Video: “Louis Pasteur - Scientist” by Biography
A quick video from Biography.com on the life and achievements of Louis Pasteur.
Video: “Kids and Vaccines: Mayo Clinic Radio” by Mayo C...
A video from Mayo Clinic Radio interviews Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse about childhood ...
Video: "The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the ...
Kurzgesagt on YouTube explains to use the risks and benefits of vaccination with...
As Long as There Are Laws to Be Followed, People Will F...
Every time there is a vaccine requirement, vaccine-hesitant parents will find a ...
World Hepatitis Day is July 28, 2019
July 28, 2019, is World Hepatitis Day. Vaccines have played an important role in...
Editorial: We Get Bad Email Sometimes
We have received several critical emails, none related to the facts, some filled...
Vaccination Numbers Reported in the New York Times... I...
An 1851 issue of the New York Daily Times (now The New York Times) shows much in...
Life Insurance Claims for Spanish Influenza Victims in ...
The cost of the influenza pandemic of 1918 to one life insurance company was ove...
Ebola in DRC: What Is a Public Health Emergency of Inte...
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic ...
Make Sure Vaccinations Are on Your Back-to-School List
On top of all the school supplies children need to go back to school and be succ...
Mandatory Hepatitis A Vaccine for Food Handlers
Outbreaks of hepatitis A are occurring throughout the United States. Although ma...
Video: “How Risky Are Vaccines?” by Minute Earth
We humans are bad at assessing risk. “In fact, 9% of Americans fear zombies, whi...
The Violent Responses to Immunization Policies and Rese...
Anti-vaccine activists have always been violent. It's just that today they have ...
A Quick Story About Measles
The same law that antivaxxers today use to justify their fear of government mand...
Aborted Fetus DNA in Vaccines?
Anti-vaccine people and organizations have spread the lie that fetal DNA is some...
The United States Government Does Not Plan to Immunize ...
Influenza is a serious respiratory infection that is easily transmittable. While...
The United Kingdom Has Lost Its Measles Elimination Status
Recently, measles has made a comeback in countries around the world where it was...
The World Without Vaccines Is a World Without Many Life...
Vaccines and medical technology go hand-in hand. We would not have one without t...
Responding to California Senate Bill 276 and Its Amendm...
Antivaccine activists have turned to racist rhetoric and cyberbullying against C...
The California Vaccine Bill Fight Reached a Fever Pitch
Protests by anti-vaccine activists reached a fever pitch as the latest bill to p...
Polio Has Returned to the Philippines
After a generation without polio, the disease has returned to the Philippines. D...
A New Vaccine Against Smallpox Has Been Approved and Ad...
A new vaccine for protection against smallpox has been developed and licensed. U...
BCG Vaccination and Cancer
Recent research into the BCG vaccine's effects on lung cancer has shown some gre...
Social Media Amplifies Attacks Against Healthcare Provi...
A nurse practitioner tried to attract men to get their flu vaccine by posting ab...
Women Who Pioneered the Whooping Cough Vaccine Are Immo...
Three women who pioneered the vaccine against whooping cough have been immortali...
VIDEOS: News Reports From Around the World
A quick round-up of videos from around the world on vaccine-related issues.
VIDEO: "The Last Major Smallpox Outbreak in America" by...
The last major outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1947 in New...
A Parade in Philadelphia to Remember the 1918-1919 Infl...
On September 28, 2019, residents of Philadelphia came together to remember a par...
What Is a Vaccine Against Cancer, Anyway?
Recent news about success in a cancer vaccine has brought an old therapy back in...
Refuting Misinformation Regarding the Use of Fetal Cell...
There is no real scientific evidence to lend credence to the claim that fetal ce...
Video: “Launch of the Malaria Vaccine in Ghana” by the ...
The World Health Organization is sponsoring a malaria vaccine trial in Ghana, Ke...
Influenza Season Is Definitely Here as the First Deaths...
States are beginning to report influenza-associated deaths, marking the beginnin...
Two Down, One to Go: A Second Polio Type Is Eradicated ...
The World Health Organization has announced that the second of three types of po...