As fear of smallpox receded, the Continental Army saw a surge of new recruits. In a 2020 essay for National Geographic, Andrew Lawler wrote that “George Washington’s embrace of science-based ...

During the Revolutionary War, Continental Army troops were intentionally exposed to smallpox by their enemies, so in 1777 ...

These four doctors were graduates of medical colleges that taught bloodletting and intestinal purging, the ‘remedies’ used to treat George Washington ... than Jenner’s smallpox vaccine.

Since December 2020, Lewis and Clark Public Health has administered 47,737 COVID-19 vaccine doses, equal to 33 shots per day, every day in the last four years.

And then there’s George Washington. He might be the first president ... Washington congratulated him and then compared marriage to smallpox or the plague because it is something “a man ...

Had George Washington been less ambivalent ... When he reached the black Loyalist encampment, it was a rife with smallpox. King became ill himself, and discovered that the British removed sick ...

At a time when routine vaccination rates have yet to recover from a pandemic-era dip and vaccine confidence is more fragile ...

New construction at a military research site near Moscow reveals a specialized laboratory complex designed to research and handle deadly pathogens, experts say.

“He lived, it is believed, because of the expert care he received at George Washington University Hospital ... the second human disease after smallpox,” he said. “These two vaccines have ...

Despite the proven success of vaccines in eradicating diseases like polio and smallpox ... M.D., an assistant professor at Georgetown and George Washington universities, is a physician at Northern ...

Had George Washington been less ambivalent ... When he reached the black Loyalist encampment, it was a rife with smallpox. King became ill himself, and discovered that the British removed sick ...