The Great Vaccinator
Radiolab
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Is the After Mumps a Vaccine?
In 19 67, four years after he'd swabbed geraldine's throat, hillman had made his mumps vaccine. It was the fastest anyone had ever made a vaccine, from start to finish. He got to name it after his daughter, ylagi's called the geradine strain. And so we eliminated measles, the most contagious of the vacine preventable disease s because it was so incredibly effective.
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