PBS
Nova: Making Vaccines
Explore the production of six different types of vaccines. This activity is interactive, allowing you to take part in the production of the different vaccines.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Vacuna Contra La Viruela: Lo Que Necesita Saber
Spanish resource provides information about the smallpox vaccination.
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.
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...
Other
How Smallpox Was Eliminated
Discover the history of vaccine development. Describes the historical contexts of scientific efforts to eradicate smallpox.
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.
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.
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.