In light of all the work that went into producing the the COVID-19 vaccine. Harini wanted to go back in time and take us back to the lovely, but slightly dirty 18th century to discuss the very FIRST vaccine ever created for eradicating smallpox! We're calling all milkmaids, surgeons, small children, and red cloth merchants for this episode. 

 

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Episode Sources:

• Image 1: Edward Jenner, the man who created the very first vaccine, inoculating a small child vs smallpox (via Getty Images)

• Image 2: A graphic of how smallpox can ravage the body (via Medical Xpress)

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/well/family/covid-vaccine-smallpox-coronavirus.html

• https://www.history.com/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-smallpox

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/

• https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2011.00021/full

• https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/smallpox-and-story-vaccination

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