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Victorian anti-vaccine literature shows that the fears and concerns remain largely the same today.

Victorian anti-vaccine literature shows that the fears and concerns remain largely the same today.

Though vampiric tombs are most likely associated in the popular mind with the castles and crypts of Transylvania, in Britain

A look at William Tebb’s strange, wonderful 1896 book, “Premature Burial and How to Prevent It.”

Vaccine hesitancy draws back to long before the current anti-vaxxers movements.

Many modern inventions have actually been around in one form or another for decades or even centuries. We tend to think these things are new because the

Event details about After Dark: (Un)Dead Science in San Francisco on October 21, 2021 - watch, listen, photos and tickets

May 11, 2021 at 6:00 am As vaccines to protect people from COVID-19 started becoming available in late 2020, the rhetoric of anti-vaccine groups intensified. Efforts to keep vaccines out of arms reinforce misinformation about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines and spread disinformation — deliberately misleading people for political, ideological or other reasons. Vaccines have been met with suspicion and hostility for as long as they have existed. Current opposition to COVID-19 vacci...

April 28, 2021 An 1802 engraving shows a doctor, possibly Edward Jenner, with a “victim” of his vaccine. They are surrounded by the already vaccinated, who exhibit some worrying cow-related side effects.Credit...James Gillray, via Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images, via Getty Images By David Motadel Mr. Motadel is a historian at the London School of Economics and Political Science. LONDON — Almost 14 months into the coronavirus pandemic, vaccines are, for most of us, the key t...