VACCINES & BAYONETS on NPR Radio
KCBX 89.5 FM, “Issues and Ideas” Central Coast Public Radio! Author, Bee Bloeser, is interviewed on the Issues and Ideas segment: Wilmer and I discuss my book, VACCINES & BAYONETS: …
Vaccines and Bayonets: Launch Celebration June 24!
I am very excited to announce the official launch of Vaccines & Bayonets on Gavin Roy Presents YouTube Channel, June 24th at 430pm PDT. Please bring your friends and your …
Smallpox Attacks 18th Century Boston; George Washington Risks Inoculating Troops
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 …
Inoculation Proves its Worth; Mozart Gets Smallpox as Dad Says No Inoculation
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 …
Lady Montagu, 18th Century British Aristocrat, Feminist, Smallpox Fighter and Public Health Heroine
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 …