#Smallpox

RealScientists | Erin

It's #epidemiology history time! Up today: vaccination! Smallpox was a deadly disease that can be traced back as far as 3rd century BCE in Egyptian mummies and repeatedly appeared in

#OnThisDay in 1796, Edward Jenner performed the first smallpox vaccination. Jenner had observed that milkmaids, who were exposed to cowpox through their work, were often immune to smallpox and its

Back in Time West London

London has often faced the terrible challenge of disease outbreaks. The smallpox epidemic in 1881 led to a desperate shortage of hospital beds. London’s Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB) considered housing

Nature Rev Immunol

Ok immunology community, we need some suggestions for women and non-white/Asian immunologists to include in the bios in the next edition of Janeway! Maybe @VirusesImmunity can help? Immuno-bio-diversity :)https://twitter.com/Caroline_Bartma/status/11

Built in 1894 to carry virus carrying citizens to their isolation island in the middle of the Rideau River, the iron truss bridge to Porters Island still exists...A Sunday Ottawa

Dr Jenner’s House

What did we do before vaccines? A thread Smallpox was one of history's most feared diseases, a killer and a mutilator. Its most severe form had a mortality rate of

Emmett O'Connell

A lot of our focus on historical lookbacks for our pandemic thinking has been on 1918 because most of our policy thinking has been about preventative measures, bans on public

Just AnotherPerson

1/3 Could the coronavirus have originated in Russia? Is it possible this was an accident? Remember back in September when they had a level 4 bioweapons lab explosion? #SARSCoV2 #coronavirus

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

Please share your favorite #publichealth SUCCESS story.I will start, with 2 powerful examples of how policy and science can work together. 1.The eradication of smallpox.A brilliant combo of science (Edward

Kai Nagata 🇨🇦

Canada became a country in 1867. Here's what happened in the five years prior (just in B.C.)Smallpox arrives in Victoria. Colonial authorities refuse to vaccinate local Indigenous people. Instead they

3 optimistic essays: the path to ending the pandemic1."Although attempts to delegitimize vaccines have posed a serious threat to human health, anti-vaccination movements, at least in the long run, have

nʌᴉɐsᴉɥʇo

One more reason for the irresponsible, Anti-vaccine imbeciles to hate COVID vaccines, especially the Indian ones, is that: The word 'Vaccine' is etymologically closed related to Sanskrit & is derived

Gumby, JD (murdered)

In 2005, Don Rumsfeld made millions off his holdings in Gilead thanks to a trumped-up bird flu epidemic, for which 60 countries stockpiled Tamiflu. Later studies would show only moderate

So a lot of people want to know why COVID-19 is such a big deal, even as death rates are climbing and ICUs are overwhelmed. After all, diseases have always

You Dont FQQl Me ❤️🇳🇿🥝

#vaccine and inoculation history. Newspapers in 1913. What was really happening outside of the “The Science is settled” script?Here is a newspaper article from December 17,1913 (over 100 years ago)

Deepa Rodrigues

I have been combing through public health campaigns in India post Independence, highlighting pivotal product designs and creating a timeline of graphic design used for dissemination over the years. Will