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.

The eradication of smallpox ... virus and itself was occasionally fatal, vaccination with cowpox was limited in clinical effect, produced a local scar indicative of response, and did not result ...

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 ...

Last November smallpox erupted with more than usual ... The British are now requiring visitors to show vaccination scars or go to an isolation hospital. But the British government still shies ...

Orthopoxvirus: Genus of DNA viruses that includes variola (smallpox), monkeypox, cowpox, and vaccinia. Progressive vaccinia: Progressive necrosis of the primary vaccination site with spread of ...

Four physicians were left ill with “local smallpox infections” (positive vaccination reactions) acquired when glass vaccine tubes accidentally broke. Their vaccination scars will be in unusual ...

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 ...

Potential neurological complications of smallpox vaccination include postvaccinial encephalopathy, most common in infants <12 months of age, and postvaccinial encephalomyelitis (or encephalitis).

Wealthier countries are responding to the monkeypox outbreak by ordering more smallpox vaccines than they require, risking a reprise of the vaccine inequality seen during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Twenty years later, in 1796, Edward Jenner determined that inoculation with cowpox, a far milder virus, conferred equally powerful immunity against smallpox. He named the procedure “vaccination ...