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Evan Kirshenbaum@evankirshenbaum.bsky.social |
Would you believe late 18th century and the original smallpox vaccine?
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Lee Rowan
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The real kicker of this is that inoculation against smallpox first came to America via an enslaved African, long before Jenner and his cowpox vaccination. Jenner simply improved on the idea when he found that cowpox conferred immunity without the higher risk of inoculation with actual smallpox.
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