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In 1775, Washington deployed colonial soldiers who had survived smallpox to retake Boston during a city-wide epidemic.

International treaties including the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), Biological Weapons Convention (1975), Ottawa Treaty (1999), and Convention on Cluster Munitions (2010) banned weapons like ...

For many people dedicated to global health, their hero died on Jan 24, 2026. The passing of the American epidemiologist William “Bill” H Foege (1936–2026) should not, however, be seen as an ending, ...

Hidden on Roosevelt Island sits a Gothic hospital ruin so hauntingly beautiful and historically dark that it makes you ...

New York City is full of surprises, but few are as jaw-dropping as discovering that a massive, crumbling Gothic hospital sits on an island in the East River, looking exactly like the kind of place ...

On this day in history, March 4, 1754, Benjamin Waterhouse, a pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, was born in Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Waterhouse was a physician, co-founder, and professor at Harvard ...

Just 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, and a major step towards eradication. The Carter Center, a United States non-profit leading the ...