As a young man in 1751, George Washington visited the Caribbean island of Barbados, contracting smallpox. Washington was ...

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

Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In a year when one presidential candidate endorses vaccines, another is ambivalent and a third is staunchly opposed, it’s worth ...