Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Lo Que Debe Saber Y Hacer Sobre La Vacunacion
Here you will find general rules and guidelines to follow if someone that you're in close proximity to gets the smallpox vaccination. This site is also available in English.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Making Vaccines
Examine how vaccines generate immune responses against pathogens in the body by creating six vaccines in this virtual laboratory.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Cuidado Del Sitio Donde Se Aplico La Vacuna
Specific information given as to how to care for the site of the smallpox vaccination after it has been given.
The College of Physicians
The History of Vaccines
Complete medical education project explores the role and uses of vaccines now and in the past. Find information and analysis about vaccination controversies; answers to frequent questions about vaccinations; timelines of diseases,...
National Health Museum
Vaccines: How and Why?
This article describes the history of vaccines, how they work, and how they are made. Includes a list of references, a glossary, and links to activities.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Personas Que No Deben Recibir La Vacuna Contra La Viruel
This site covers what type of people should not get the smallpox vaccine. This information is also available in English.
A&E Television
History.com: When the Supreme Court Ruled a Vaccine Could Be Mandatory
In 1901 a deadly smallpox epidemic tore through the Northeast, prompting the Boston and Cambridge boards of health to order the vaccination of all residents. But some refused to get the shot, claiming the vaccine order violated their...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Edward Jenner (1749 1823)
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of the Fordham University provides a highly detailed biography of Edward Jenner (1749-1823 CE), noted physician and discoverer of the smallpox vaccine. Also presented are three original...
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Medmyst: Nemesis in Neuropolis
In this online learning adventure game, students will play the role of scientist, historian, and detective. By solving the problem presented in this smallpox case, they will learn how infectious diseases are spread, how the smallpox...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: History of Vaccines
Illustrated overview of the history of vaccines and inoculations against diseases, such as smallpox and polio.
Other
Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene: Smallpox [Pdf]
Talks about what smallpox is, how it was treated before a vaccine came out, and talks about Edward Jenner and his association with smallpox. PDF file
Curated OER
Kids Health: What Is Smallpox?
From Kids Health, this site describes what smallpox is and answers some other questions kids might have.
Other
How Smallpox Was Eliminated
Discover the history of vaccine development. Describes the historical contexts of scientific efforts to eradicate smallpox.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Edward Jenner
Learn about the english physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the first vaccination.
Harvard University
Harvard University Library: Benjamin Waterhouse, 1754 1846
Brief biographical facts on the medical career of Benjamin Waterhouse, the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Vaccines Work?
The first ever vaccine was created when Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, successfully injected small amounts of a cowpox virus into a young boy to protect him from the related (and deadly) smallpox virus. But how does...
Other
Cdc: Generalidades Acerca De La Vacuna [Pdf]
A fact sheet that provides detailed information on the smallpox vaccine. Learn about the length of protection, receiving the vaccine and view upclose photos of the primary vaccination site reaction.
Curated OER
Child With Smallpox
National Public Radio offers information on smallpox vaccinations, the "best chance to offset bioterror threat." Includes a brief description of the disease and its history.
Other
Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination
A site with a brief biography of Edward Jenner, with a lot of links to old books and papers of his that document his experiments in vaccinations.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Vacuna Contra La Viruela Y Problemas Del Corazon
Use this site to find out how the monitoring of smallpox vaccinations may cause heart inflammation. Review the precautionary steps to be taken prior to receiving the smallpox vaccinations.
Other
Global Polio Eradication Initiative: History of Polio
This timeline from Global Polio Eradication Initiative of pictures, descriptions, and events -- all of which describe the history of polio and its vaccine -- is organized into three large sections: "Endemic Polio 1580BC-1953," "Vaccine...
Read Works
Read Works: Healing Power
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who helped create a vaccination for small pox. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Monkey Pox Basics
This page contains several links to articles on the CDC's Web site about monkey pox. Great place to go to get all of the information you'll ever need about the disease.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner was an English country doctor who studied nature and his natural surroundings since his childhood and practiced medicine in Berkeley. He is famous for his discovery of the smallpox vaccine.