And regular polling carried out by YouGov suggests adults are increasingly likely to say that vaccines have harmful side ...

Throughout the ages, smallpox, now known to be caused by a virus, was a serious, and often deadly, disease that had spread ...

A strong contemporary anti-vaccination movement, as exemplified by the opinions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others, prompts us to examine the history of the vaccine movement, how we got here, and ...

The concept of vaccines first emerged in the 18th century when Dr. Edward Jenner purposely gave a young boy cowpox. Jenner, ...

Jenner then conducted a nationwide survey in search of proof of resistance to smallpox among persons who previously had had cowpox. The results of this survey supported his theory and provided one ...

Experts call the health implications “dire” with some fearing Kennedy could set off a fresh round in the school culture wars ...

Yet today, their success is under siege — not by scientific challenges, but by deliberate misinformation campaigns led by figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been nominated to oversee the U.S.

Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus, but a preparation of vaccinia (a form of cowpox) virus. In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British physician, demonstrated that infection caused by ...