Measles outbreak

Innoculation always prompts anxiety. Here's how France dealt with it three centuries ago.

How France used fashion to spread the message to vaccinate

February 9, 2015Culture

In the 18th century, King Louis XVI underwent a highly controversial medical procedure: smallpox inoculation. To commemorate his new immunity, milliners in France concocted a new fashion. A historian says we need a gimmick like that today to help us through a measles outbreak.

A young boy in Ethiopia cries as he gets a measles vaccination

A Nigerian satirist takes a sobering approach to measles, Ebola

February 4, 2015Health