Scientists find smallpox strains used to vaccinate Civil War soldiers

Monday, July 20, 2020 - 09:10 in Health & Medicine

Thanks to an analysis of American Civil War-era vaccination kits, scientists have traced the origins of the virus strains use during some of the earliest smallpox vaccination efforts in the United States.

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