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Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective

Measles is a scary disease that is particularly dangerous to … appears a few days after the initial onset of symptoms. Measles often causes severe complications, including … skin lesions, indicative of hereditary rubella. However, measles can be controlled through vaccination , and has been …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… Indian variolation vial with smallpox virus. Outbreaks of measles across the globe have once again set off the great … over vaccination. Since 2014, more than 22,000 cases of measles have appeared in Europe and the World Health … increased vaccination campaigns in the region. In the U.S., measles that began in Disneyland in late 2014 infected more …
lab tech with vaccine

Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood

Review of Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization, by Elena Conis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
… attention was turned to so-called dirty diseases such as measles. Modern confidence in science was such that many … part of responsible parenthood, especially after a combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine became available. While … and by 1980 96% of children were being immunized against measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and other diseases. At …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… , influenza , and HIV to cholera, smallpox, polio, and measles. And now coronavirus. COVID-19 has—as ofJune 2, … and Asia Minor and was most likely an outbreak of either measles or smallpox (and if the latter, then it would be the … advances, including the ability to identify viruses such as measles and polio, and in turn to develop crucial vaccines . …
Students at the Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1890-1910.

Early American Contagions

… in the Americas. The idea that diseases such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous … and of the further forty percent of soldiers infected with measles, twenty percent succumbed. The Union Army was no …
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.

Who Was Typhoid Mary?

… but her story remains relevant.  COVID-19 , along with  measles ,  tuberculosis  and other returning or new  …

Killing the Arctic

… a deadly assortment of diseases ranging from smallpox and measles to syphilis. Humans killed staggering quantities of …
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.

Taking it on the Chin

Review of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, by Margot Mifflin (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)
… 187).  Given the numerous outbreaks of diseases, such as measles and cholera, that Mifflin discusses Olive was …