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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 …
Afar community animal health worker describing the appearance and characteristics of rinderpest in cattle (photo credit: ILRI/Jeff Mariner).

The Second Disease Eradication: Rinderpest

… (RPV), the virus responsible for rinderpest, was Measles morbillivirus (MeV), the virus responsible for measles in humans. Scientists are still working out the details of the family tree, but most agree that measles emerged out of a spillover from cattle into humans. …

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)