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 …
7 Years in the making – Africa smallpox memoir released!
RESPECTED JOURNALISTS ARE TALKING **From Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Deputy Editor of Foreign Policy magazine:“At a time when vaccines are front page news and a deadly pandemic is raging across the globe. . …
CORONAVIRUS CONTACT TRACING AND LOCKDOWN: Learning from Smallpox
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 …
CORONAVIRUS CONTACT TRACING AND LOCKDOWN: Learning from Smallpox
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 …
5 Reasons We Need A Treatment for Smallpox
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 …
Smallpox / Public Health Hero Loses to Cancer at 80
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 …
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 …
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 …
SMALLPOX SHUFFLES DYNASTIES
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 …
SURPRISE! SMALLPOX NOT AS ANCIENT AS WE THOUGHT
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 …