222: The Antivenom Conspiracy
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The Importance of Understanding the Immune System
Some vaccines essentially work by introducing a small amount of the poison or whatever it is into the body so that the body can develop a resistance to it. That is not how vaccines actually work. So he basically was injecting animals with really small doses of venom and trying to produce some sort of, you know, cure or treatment from that. He began production in 1885 at the Passier Institute in Lille, Lille,. Lille, France, in France.
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