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Why We Vaccinate Babies Against Hepatitis B

13 Jun 2019

​This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.

Ensuring That You're Protected Against Measles

2 May 2019

​This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.

How You Can Save Your Child from Some Cancers

16 Apr 2019

That’s right, there is a vaccine against cancer, and it’s been on the market since 2006. This vaccine protects against the most dangerous types of human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted virus...

Measles: the plague that ruined Rome

27 Jun 2018

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but from 165-180 CE, up to 2,000 of its citizens were killed per day....

The Death of Smallpox

20 Mar 2017

Edward Jenner, an English country doctor is usually credited with introducing the idea of vaccination because of his landmark publication in 1798 in which he described inoculating 23 people with...

Snorting Things to Survive Smallpox?

20 Mar 2017

A powder made from the scabs of pustules on the skin of people who had survived smallpox. The eradication of this horrific disease, which is thought to have first appeared around 10,000 B.C., is...

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