Child mortality has been halved in the last 25 years. Building on this progress, new innovations in immunization are working ...

Jenner decided to apply scientific tests to the country legend and began collecting evidence of people who had contracted cowpox and then been exposed to smallpox without becoming infected.

Edward Jenner figured out the connection between smallpox and humans from a milkmaid’s blistered hands. But it turns out cows aren’t actually the key to smallpox immunity.

Edward Jenner deliberately infected a young boy with cowpox and then smallpox. But his method wasn’t as mad as is often made out.

The best-known version of the smallpox-vaccine story goes like this: In 1796, the British doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids exposed to a mild disease called cowpox were unusually ...

Jenner publicly took a great chance by intentionally exposing Phipps to smallpox after the vaccination.

The World Health Organization declared smallpox officially eradicated in 1980. The vaccine is no longer administered routinely by any government.

Many Mississippi Territory settlers were saved from smallpox in the early 19th century because of actions taken by William C. C. Claiborne.

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

An 1884 oil painting by Eugène Ernest Hillemacher depicts English physician and scientist Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy against smallpox, hundreds of years after this practice emerged in Africa ...

Many Mississippi Territory settlers were saved from smallpox in the early 19th century because of actions taken by William C. C. Claiborne.