Speaker & Author of VACCINES & BAYONETS
Coronavirus. Quarantine. Social distance. Contact tracing. Lockdown. New terms and questions dominate our consciousness. Vaccine—where’s the vaccine? With no vaccine and no proven treatment for COVID-19, we isolate, wear masks …
It’s big news. Check the New England Journal of Medicine, ScienceNews, NYTimes, Forbes, Huff Post—you name it. This is huge. The FDA has approved the first-ever drug to treat variola …
Celebrate with me, my friends. I’ve just sent the manuscript for my Africa memoir Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War off to the proofreader. …
Celebrate with me, my friends. I’ve just sent the manuscript for my Africa memoir Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War off to the proofreader. …
Dr. Davida Coady has lost her battle with ovarian cancer. She was 80 years old. Davida Coady, physician who treated refugees in Biafra and helped eradicate smallpox in India, dies …
Wails and delirium of the dying and the putrid stench of smallpox seep from the windows and billow from the doors. They flood the streets of Boston and rise to …
Today, May 8, 2018 is the 38th anniversary of the World Health Organization’s proclamation of a smallpox-free world. The photo above is the commemorative medallion presented to my husband for …
1717. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, feminist wife of Britain’s ambassador to Ottoman Empire, is stunned by the Turks’ means of conferring immunity against smallpox, inoculation/variolation with smallpox. Having been earlier ravaged …
The year is 1718. Smallpox inoculation is unknown in Western cultures, and vaccine is still decades in the future. Commoners and kings are powerless against the onslaught of the speckled …
SMALLPOX SHUFFLING DYNASTIES “It shuffled the leadership of royal houses like a handful of playing cards.” So says writer Maryn McKenna of smallpox. (See my previous post.) Her National Geographic article revealed …