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Re: Smallpox vaccine date(s)

From Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.politics
Subject Re: Smallpox vaccine date(s)
Date 2021-11-11 21:19 +0000
Organization terraraq NNTP server
Message-ID <878rxupeze.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> (permalink)
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gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:
> Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> ...
>>	And then of course the idiocy of the Anti-Vaccination
>>mob.  George Washington mandated smallpox vaccination by the
>>way at Valley Forge lest all his soldiers die.
>
> I keep hearing this story from the anti-anti-vax crowd (of which I am a
> member), and it is a good story, but the sad fact is that the dates don't
> quite line up.  Look it up.  The smallpox vaccine was discovered/invented
> by Edward Jenner in 1796.  The American Revolutionary War was fought in the
> late 1770s.
>
> This is a problem.

I suspect Washington used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation, a
practice at least couple of centuries old at the time and possibly much
older. Jenner wasn’t even first to use cowpox to immunize against
smallpox, but he does seem to have been instrumental in mass adoption.

-- 
https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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