Penguins of Madagascar and the Smallpox Vaccine
The Anthropocene Reviewed
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Is Covid 19 a New Disease?
i don't know that we would have vaccines for covid 19 if we had not developed them for smallpox. In parts of africa and asia, people inhaled dried small pox scabs in order to induce a mild iversion of the disease and thereafter lifelong immunity. Mather of salem witch trial's fame is often credited with introducing small pox varielation to north america. But he learned the technique from an enslaved man named onesimus. The procedure remained too expensive and too time consuming for common folk to afford. Immunity thus tended to concentrate in the upper classes. For the poor and marginalized, smallpox was now a greater risk because it could be spread
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