Scientists trace and identify origin of smallpox vaccine strains used in Civil War (IMAGE)

McMaster University

Scientists trace and identify origin of smallpox vaccine strains used in Civil War

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Ana Duggan, a former postdoc in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster and lead researcher on the study

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JD Howell, McMaster University

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