Speaker & Author of VACCINES & BAYONETS
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 …
Readers of VACCINES & BAYONETS are talking. “At a time when vaccines are front page news and a deadly pandemic is raging across the globe, Bee Bloeser’s memoir of her family’s …
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 …
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Unexpected Smallpox A young girl in a Lithuanian church was revealing secrets. Secrets about her life. And her disease. Some were secrets that had been anticipated. But then. As scientists …
Extra Edition When we lived in Equatorial Guinea during smallpox eradication, the dictator of this sinister place, President Macias Nguema, outlawed political opposition. He instituted the Partido Unico Nacional (P.U.N.) …
Smallpox virus is an equal opportunity borrower. It has to live. It has to replicate itself in order to live. It has to borrow human cells in order to replicate. …
Breaking News: January 4, 2018 – Today.ng reports an AFP story that Facebook, WhatsApp and VPNs have been blocked in my former host country, Equatorial Guinea. And… February 5, 2018 – …
I know I promised you a close up look at smallpox, and I’ll get back to that, but I have to tell you about a coup attempt that hits close …