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EP. 50: A SHORT HISTORY OF VACCINES; DR. PAUL OFFIT ON SKEPTICISM, RISK, AND COVID-19

Bounce! Conversations with Larry Weeks

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Cow Pox Vaccines

Genner noted that milkmaids. would get these sort of blisters on their hands, were on their wrists, associated with those blisters that were on the cows. Then he thought those two things were connected. He inoculated his 15 month old son with essentially what we now know as cow poxs and found his son did well. And thus was born a a vacine cow pox which eliminated probably t bot, the biggest killer of of mankind,. of the the human kind.

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