From an enslaved Bostonian who helped save smallpox victims to scientists behind the COVID-19 vaccine, National Doctors' Day ...

A G.I. with ribbons on his chest had come back from Japan to Seattle. He brought smallpox with him. Result: the city’s worst epidemic of the “Red Death” in years.* Last week police were called out to ...

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As a young man in 1751, George Washington visited the Caribbean island of Barbados, contracting smallpox. Washington was ...

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This year it’s COVID-19. But years ago, particularly among Native Americans, the feared disease was smallpox. Bernie Webb, formerly of Carrington, N.D., and now of Gettysburg, S.D., sent a report ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a vaccine had been developed for smallpox, a virus that killed millions in the 1800s. Those who survived the disease were often left badly scarred or blind. The ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

As so many people around the globe contemplate what their lives might look like after the pandemic, new research on smallpox might help provide insight. Researchers revealed nearly three centuries of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louisiana Purchase was still two years away. Natchez was pretty much the wild, wild west on the frontier of a young United ...