"We found that long-forgotten plagues have roared back, killing and maiming children in parts of the world where access to vaccines or trust in them faltered. What seemed like subtle changes to a country’s vaccine policies had disastrous consequences years later."

https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #disabilities #measles #meningitis #covid #smallpox #diphtheria #tetanus #rubella #polio #HHS #CDC #ACIP #mistrust #misinformation #gavi #GlobalHealth

Ever wonder why the Gettysburg address was short?

On Nov.19, 1863, shortly before giving the address, President Abraham Lincoln experienced a severe headache and chills. He had written the last half of his speech the night before. Two days after returning from the address, he developed a rash of #smallpox. Never vaccinated, he canceled meetings to quarantine for 10 days.

Despite a fatality rate of around 30%, he recovered and issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction on Dec. 8th

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Smallpox killed 300 million people last century. One man helped stop it.

https://misryoum.com/us/us-today/smallpox-killed-300-million-people-last-century-one/

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today.Had William Foege been a military general or a CEO or a politician, his death on...

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Today in Labor History February 20, 1905: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. There were lots of problems early on with the vaccine. For one, they reused needles, causing the transfer of syphilis from infected to uninfected people. They also had problems with bacterial contamination of the vaccine that made some people sick. On the other hand, because of the global mandatory vaccination program, the disease was eradicated in 1977, the only human disease to be completely wiped out. Keep in mind that as recently as the mid-1950s, over 2 million people were dying annually, worldwide, from the disease.

With respect to personal freedom, the Court ruled in Jacobson that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the state’s use of police power. Consequently, Jacobson has been invoked in other Supreme Court cases to justify police power. The ruling led to a mobilization of the anti-vaccination movement and the creation of the Anti-Vaccination League of America. The Jacobson ruling was later invoked to support the eugenicist forced sterilization of people with intellectual disabilities (Buck v Bell, 1927); the federal partial abortion ban (Gonzales v Carhart, 2007); drug testing of students (Veronica School District v Acton, 1995); and, most recently, COVID mitigation mandates, like face masks and stay-at-home orders.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #smallpox #vaccination #publichealth #vaccinemandates #liberty #freedom #SCOTUS #publichealth #antivax

I wrote a novella about nonproliferation!

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How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmark in just 7 years.

In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all united to promote the new smallpox vaccine, which led to a remarkably quick elimination of the disease in the capital.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260130-how-an-1800s-vaccine-drive-beat-smallpox-in-denmark-in-just-7-years?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#InfectiousDiseases #Vaccines #Denmark #Smallpox #History #Health #Medicine

https://news.emory.edu/features/2026/01/er_william_foege_25-01-2026/index.htmlThe man who arguably had the biggest impact on smallpox eradication. A great loss for medicine and science.

#science #smallpox #medicine #news