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The Eradication of Smallpox

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The History of Small Pox Vaccines

In the late eighteenth century, people started to make a connection between smallpox and another much milder disease that was called cow pox. People who had contracted cow pox seemed immune to small pox. Eventually, vaccinia virus replaced cow pox virus for vaccination purposes. Countries actually started to outlaw arm to ar vaccinations in the late nineteenth century.

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