More than 2,000 violent rioters - some armed with stones, others with revolvers - stormed through the streets protesting mandatory vaccinations. "Kill the vaccinators," they shouted. Subscribe to The ...

The last endemic case of smallpox in Canada occurred in 1946, but before widespread vaccination, smallpox outbreaks were common. Smallpox was a self-limiting, deadly disease caused by the variola ...

Dorian Deshauer: That's fascinating. And so that brings us back to the story. And I want to just recap for our listeners who have not read the article. So tell us a little bit about what happened in ...

In 1885 a bout of smallpox gripped Montreal killing thousands of its people and infecting many more. A series of misunderstandings and mistakes made by the public and authorities led to the outbreak ...

In the spring of 1885 at Montreal’s Natural History Society, Dr. J.B. McConnell delivered a lecture on the history of epidemics and the cutting-edge science that was then posting rapid advances in ...

More than 2,000 violent rioters — some armed with stones, others with revolvers — stormed through the streets protesting mandatory vaccinations. “Kill the vaccinators,” they shouted. The scene was ...