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The Best Way to Stop Smallpox Is to Vaccinate

The best way to stop smallpox is to vaccinate. We hired volunteers from the neighborhood to vaccinate everyone within a 1.5 mile radius of the house. The vaccine comes in two viols, and this is the vaccine here. People were trained over a couple of hours. I must have vaccinated myself 10,000 times during the time I was there.

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