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Mired in misconception, the poxvirus is endemic in certain African countries but was rarely reported in Europe and the U.S. until recently

January 16, 2021 We tend to think that immunotherapy is a very recent medical achievement, originating no later than a couple of decades ago. As a matter of fact, the very beginning of immunotherapy sensu lato might be traced back to the China’s Qin dynasty period, around the third century BC. Although difficult to prove, scarce written resources mention purposeful inoculation with variola minor virus in order to prevent smallpox disease (1, 2). Many centuries later, in 1718, this practice was also reported in the Ottoman Empire by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, the wife of the British ambassa...

The Beginnings From ancient Egypt, some 3,000 years ago, to the early nineteenth century there have been multiple anecdotal reports of tumors disappearing spontaneously or after an infection with concomitant high fever (3, 4). The similarity between cancer and inflammation was described for the first time by the Greek physician, Galen, who noted that cancer might evolve from inflammatory lesions (5). The first scientific attempts to modulate patients' immune systems to cure cancer can be attributed to two German physicians, Fehleisen and Busch, who independently noticed significant tumor regr...

What if I can’t get the COVID-19 vaccine right now? Niran Al-Agba, MD, Guest Opinion © USA Today File Photo First responders in Massachusetts will begin receiving the COVID-19 vaccine next week. If you are not immediately eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine or are afraid to get it, what else can you do? New research shows a vaccine in use for the last 50 years looks promising in the fight against COVID-19. Medicine lives in patterns. To understand our modern problem, let’s look back 250 years.      In 1768, John Fewster, a country surgeon based in Thornbury, England ...