When assessing scientific evidence, I always recommend to my students that they be mindful of…
Tag: Smallpox
In our last blog post, we talked about how President Donald Trump is not the…
n 1969, a debate took place between John M. Neff, MD, and Samuel Lawrence Katz, MD, on whether to continue to immunize children against smallpox given that, at the time, the disease was under control in the country. (Think of polio today, where it is found only in areas of Central Asia, yet children in the United States and other countries continue to receive the vaccine.) The debate was televised and archived by the US National Library of Medicine.
We at The History of Vaccines love timelines. They help explain historical events in a way that is a little more entertaining than a boring list of important dates. Below is a small project started before the pandemic that I only now got around to finishing. It is the story of the Balmis Expedition, an expedition by Spanish physicians and their team to take the newly developed smallpox vaccine to the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia.
Questions about vaccines linger in the public and are often repeated by public figures. One question is which vaccines are the most necessary. In this post, we tell you which are not necessary and why.