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Vaccine
Another Physician in California Is Charged With Selling...
Another physician in California allegedly sold unnecessary vaccine exemptions at...
Why Is Measles So Bad?
Once you understand what measles does to your immune system, you'd understand wh...
Debunking a Claim About the High-Dose Influenza Vaccine
If it happened after getting the flu vaccine, it's not usually because of the fl...
A New Tuberculosis Vaccine Shows Promise in Preventing ...
A new tuberculosis vaccine is showing promise. It might even mean no more antibi...
Video: “Talking Death with Caitlin Doughty: The 1918 In...
Mütter Museum Curator Anna Dhody sits with mortician and author Caitlin Doughty ...
German Parents Who Refuse to Vaccinate Will Face Fines ...
In Germany, the government has just passed a new law to encourage parents to vac...
Victims of Smallpox in History: Senator William Upham
A US Senator died from smallpox in 1854, and a letter to the editor of The New Y...
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Pasteur “Cures Hydroph...
Read how news got to America that Louis Pasteur had developed the rabies vaccine...
Hundreds of Measles Cases in Samoa, Almost Two Dozen Dead
Samoa is experiencing a rather large epidemic of measles brought on by vaccine h...
En Español: ¿La viruela debe volver a preocuparnos?
La viruela ha sido erradicada desde hace 38 años. ¿Debemos aún temerla?
The Horror of German Measles in the 1960s and Today
In the 1960s, the United States experienced an epidemic of rubella that resulted...
En Español: La Pandemia en México en 1918
Entrevista de una hora con la historiadora Beatriz Cano sobre la experiencia en ...
Anti-Vaccine Violence Around the World
Violence against vaccine campaign workers has very serious consequences. This vi...
Physicians Arrested While Protesting Lack of Influenza ...
Crowded places, like detention centers and jails, are very likely to trigger epi...
Popular Culture and Vaccines
Here are some videos about vaccination created by students, teachers and healthc...
Measles Deaths, by the Numbers
There are more deaths each year from measles than from air traffic accidents and...
En Español: La expedición Balmis – España y la Primer...
La expedición de Balmis en lo que en aquel tiempo se llamaba “La Nueva España” t...
Video: “Why We Need a Tuberculosis Vaccine,” by the Alb...
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine are working on a vaccine ...
A Podcast on the Balmis Expedition
A quick podcast on the Balmis expedition, which we covered before in Spanish, as...
En Español: Viruela. A 40 años de su erradicación (Nota...
Hacen ya 40 años desde que se erradicó la viruela. El esfuerzo fue enorme e incl...
En Español: Bioterrorismo… ¿Ciencia Ficción?
¿Qué tanto debe preocuparnos el posible retorno de la viruela como arma biológic...
Science Is on Trial as Parents Battle for Vaccination o...
Two parents in Toronto, Canada, are fighting over whether to protect their child...
Coronavirus Is Not the Only Zoonotic Infection of Publi...
While diseases like Ebola or Coronavirus make the news and scare many people, th...
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Novel Coronavir...
Questions about the novel coronavirus from China abound. Here, we aim to answer ...
Catching Up With Previous News Items
We bring you up to date with a couple of previous news items we blogged about la...
Pharmacist Intervention in Flu Vaccination Programs in ...
In Europe, pharmacies and pharmacists play a crucial role in getting people immu...
We Now Know Why Type B Influenza Has Been So Predominan...
A new subclade of type B influenza has been identified, and it is probably the r...
What Would a World Without Vaccines Look Like?
What would happen if all vaccination suddenly stopped? Nothing at first, then pe...
Diphtheria in Vermont, 1879
A find at an old map store leads to a story of a diphtheria epidemic in Vermont ...
“Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases”
“Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases” has been used by health authorities for mor...
Todo lo que hay que saber sobre el coronavirus
Hay muchas preguntas sobre el coronavirus. Aquí intentamos contestar algunas de ...
Black History Month: Loney Clinton Gordon Contributes t...
Loney Clinton Gordon has an important role to play in the development of the vac...
Correspondence in a Pandemic: Then and Now
In 1918, most correspondence was written by hand or typed. It was all on paper. ...
What Goes Into Naming the Cause of a Disease?
The novel coronavirus disease has been given an official name. So what goes into...
The Best Online Sources of Information on the Coronavir...
We give to you the best online sources of information on the Coronavirus epidemic.
Vaccine Exemption Bills Continue to Be Debated Througho...
Because vaccine policy is political in nature, different states in the United St...
A Soldier's Letter Home in 1918
In 1918, two Canadian brothers serving in World War I sent letters back and fort...
Which Vaccines Are the Most Essential?
Questions about vaccines linger in the public and are often repeated by public f...
The Vaccine Revolt of 1904 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In 1904, an anti-vaccine uprising almost brought down the Brazilian government. ...
How Has Wall Street Behaved With Other Pandemics?
The arrival and spread of coronavirus, and the interventions against it, have ca...
Epidemics, Social Distancing and Parades (UPDATED)
In 1918, a parade in the middle of the Spanish Flu pandemic triggered a severe e...
Here Are Four Possibilities on How the Coronavirus Pand...
There are different scenarios under which pandemics come to an end. Here, we pre...
An Expert Weighs in on COVID-19
What is COVID-19? Glad you asked! Let Dr. Harvey Rubin tell you all about it.
The First Mention of Coronaviruses in the Scientific Li...
In November 1968, an article in the journal Nature suggested a new type of virus...
Our Coronavirus Coverage
As the pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, we will try very ha...
Movie Reel: Sabin Vaccine Begins Trials
This newsreel was shown around the country in December 1960. The last segment ta...
Paul A. Offit, M.D., Talks About His Latest Book, "Over...
In OVERKILL: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far, acclaimed medical expert and pat...
Zoonotics and Climate Change
How does climate change affect our risk of zoonotics (animal-to-human epidemics)?
Tuberculosis: The Other Pandemic
As we deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, there is another pandemic going on -- a m...
“Hit Me With Your Best (Polio) Shot” by This Podcast Wi...
A one-hour podcast telling us the story of the race for the polio vaccine.
How Past American Presidents Have Spoken About Vaccines
Some brief examples of how the current and past Presidents have talked about vac...
Childhood Vaccines in Times of COVID-19
As the COVID-19 Pandemic continues, public health authorities in the United Stat...
What is an mRNA Vaccine?
With news that an mRNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus causing the current...
National Immunization Awareness Month: A Debate About V...
n 1969, a debate took place between John M. Neff, MD, and Samuel Lawrence Katz, ...
National Immunization Awareness Month: Rabies is Deadly...
Because of vaccination of pets and other animals in the United States, as well a...
National Immunization Awareness Month: Lecture by Dr. A...
Dr. Albert Sabin, creator of the oral polio vaccine, delivered a lecture at John...
National Immunization Awareness Month: Interview With D...
It is National Immunization Awareness Month in the United States, and we are kic...
Presidents and Pathogens
With news today that President Trump has tested positive for the novel coronavir...
Stories of SARS Survivors From Toronto
The 2002-2004 SARS epidemic around the world left behind many lessons for us to ...
Dr. Paul Offit Talks to KSRO Radio About the Search for...
Paul Offit, MD, gave a 10-minute interview to KSRO (Santa Clara, California) abo...
The Food and Drug Administration Approves the First Cor...
What we are about to experience as a nation -- and the world -- is going to be o...
Public Opposition to Public Health Recommendations Is N...
“Wisecrack” is an educational channel on YouTube that looks at current, popular ...
The United Kingdom Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine in t...
The British Government has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. With t...
Congressman-Elect Luke Letlow Dies from COVID-19
Just a few days before he was to be sworn-in as the federal representative from ...
What Is the Halal Status of the COVID-19 Vaccine?
This questioning of vaccine components and how they fit within religious instruc...
The COVID-19 Vaccine Begins to Be Administered
After receiving Emergency Use Authorization by the Food and Drug Administration ...
COVID-19 Vaccination Begins in the United States
COVID-19 vaccination has begun in the United States following the Emergency Use ...
Editorial: Is Chicken Pox Deadly? It Depends.
Many of the debates we are having today on scientific matters are not really "sc...
Pope Francis Calls for the Equitable Use of Coronavirus...
Public health campaigns in general and vaccination drives in particular are subj...
The History of the mRNA Vaccines
No one woke up on a morning in December and decided that an mRNA vaccine was the...
Anti-Vaccine Misinformation Has Consequences
Unfortunately, governments the world over have been unable to stave off the wave...
Where Has Influenza Gone?
If you're an infectious disease geek -- and who isn't these days? -- you may hav...
An Evening Chat With the Glenview Public Library
I was honored to be invited by the Glenview Public Library in Glenview, Illinois...
Our Instagram Feed
If you've been following History of Vaccines on Instagram, you might have notice...
Book Review: “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Crushes Smallpo...
The book by Mr. Conrad synthesizes the whole story of how Lady Mary influenced t...
Celebrities Getting Their COVID-19 Vaccines
Back in 1759, Benjamin Franklin wrote an introduction to a pamphlet aimed at enc...
A Record Number of Influenza Vaccinations Have Been Giv...
A few days ago, we told you how influenza and other respiratory diseases have be...
Historical Figure of the Month: Loney Clinton Gordon
A few months ago, a reader asked us on social media if we could use an image dif...
COVID-19 Milestone: In the United States, the Number of...
As of this morning, researchers at Johns Hopkins University are reporting 29,048...
Book Review: “Viruses and Vaccines: Smallpox to COVID-1...
All in all, this is a good book if you want to breeze through about 95 pages of ...