
Re-Release: Ep 26 Vaccines Part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice
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The Origins of Vaccines
In 1880, almost 100 years after Jenner's vaccine, Louis Pasteur was going on vacation. He told his assistant to finish up a chicken cholera study they had been working on. It turns out the assistant was busy getting ready for his own vacation and completely forgot about the experiment. But when he got back, he saw the test tube with avian cholera broth still sitting on the bench. The chickens were running around blissfully unaware that they had narrowly escaped a horrible death.
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