People being vaccinated against smallpox in New York during the 1872 epidemic.Credit: Science History Images/Alamy The Contagion of Liberty: The...
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Some people with monkeypox have reported that once they started taking the drug tecovirimat, ‘pox’ lesions on their skin stop...
Ring vaccination worked for smallpox because a person-to-person pattern of spread makes it possible to predict and interrupt chains of...
The global eradication of smallpox in the 1980s was achieved by intradermal vaccination with vaccinia virus. A study published in...