Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also has. This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine.

Think of it as the very first vaccine passport, if you will: a scar that told everyone you had been successfully vaccinated against smallpox. And yep, you guessed it, it’s that very scar that my ...

(You can see tell-tale signs that some older adults had a smallpox vaccine, because they have characteristic scars on their arms.) While the eradication of smallpox through vaccination has saved ...

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest ...

For weeks, the media have raised the specter of terrorists using smallpox virus as a weapon. The German government has bought six million doses of vaccine, and pressure is mounting in the United ...

PENGUIN PRESS, MARCH 2011 O ur skins record the histories of life’s close scrapes. One of the most common marks that humans carry is, we hope, bound for extinction: the nickel-sized cicatrix left by a ...

The condition of the city in the matter of small-pox, requires immediate and vigorous ... failed on examination to exhibit a vaccine scar." In another chapter of the same report there is the ...

It will take partially, with some resemblance to the genu-0.0 cow-pox, in twenty-five per cent of the cases, Heje. the resumption is that re-vaccination was useful. " A large scar is no evidence ...

The first known victim of smallpox was Pharaoh Ramses V of Egypt, who died in 1157BC and whose mummy still bears the scars of the disease ... led to the first vaccine. He found that milkmaids ...

To create a vaccine that will protect you against a pathogen, you usually begin with that pathogen and alter it in some way. Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another ...

People who recover from the infection are often left with permanent scars and sometimes blindness ... funding from several sources to study immune responses to the smallpox virus and for vaccine ...

Meanwhile, a smallpox shot provides efficient protection against monkeypox, because both viruses are members of "one family." According to Lewis, people had had no effective protection against ...