A vaccination kit from the American Civil War. Image courtesy of McMaster University Robert Hicks, then the director of the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, was giving a tour to a new employee when he ...

Researchers analyzed the genomes of virus fragments found on smallpox vaccination kits used during the Civil War. The kits are housed at the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

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Strains of viruses used for smallpox vaccines in the US during the civil war have been identified and their genomes reconstructed. “The successful eradication of smallpox via vaccination shows the ...

While the race for a Covid-19 vaccine continues, scientists are learning more about the early vaccines used to fight smallpox, the only human infectious disease to be successfully eradicated. A new ...