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 ...

As the use of vaccines spread - along with improved sanitation - smallpox was pushed out of Europe and North America. A World Health Organization (WHO) global eradication programme was launched in ...

There was opposition to the smallpox vaccine in Europe as well On 14 June, 1802, Anna Dusthall became the first person in India to be successfully vaccinated against smallpox. Little else is known ...

smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention, and uses medical history to illuminate broader questions of the development of statutory intervention ...

France has confirmed its first case of the mpox virus, clade 1b variant, in Brittany, the health ministry announced Monday.

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late ... The last major outbreak in Europe was in 1972 when 20 million were vaccinated after a pilgrim returning to Yugoslavia from Mecca infected 175 ...

Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable diseases brought by European explorers. Smallpox reached Massachusetts in 1633, brought by settlers from France ...