Vaccine: The Human Story
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
6. The Last Battle
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chart the WHO smallpox eradication campaign - an international operation of massive manpower, unlikely allies, and sheer human det...
5. Resistance and Fear
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the final years of the 19th century, a vast crowd takes to the streets of the city of Leicester, in an outburst of anger at the medical and politic...
4. A Gift from Heaven
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the start of the 19th century, a ship sets sail from Bengal, India, carrying a most peculiar cargo... In this episode, we look at the development ...
3. Chasing the Sun
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode of Vaccine, we look at the origins of inoculation, a precursor to vaccination which gave people immunity by deliberately infecting the...
2. The Forgotten Terror
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, it’s so difficult for many of us to imagine what it must have felt like to have lived in a time when the spectre of smallpox stalked the stre...
1. An Impossible Dream
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1980, the World Health Assembly gathered to announce that one of mankind’s greatest and deadliest enemies had been finally, and completely defeat...