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 ...

CORONAVIRUS is running rampant across the world - but lessons can be learned from 1885 Montreal, where an avoidable smallpox outbreak became the worst epidemic in the city's history. In 1885 a bout of ...

In Montreal in 1885, disease and vaccine resistance mixed with devastating results, not unfamiliar to today In the spring of 1885 at Montreal’s Natural History Society, Dr. J.B. McConnell delivered a ...

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 ...