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Porgie Tirebiter

05/05/21 2:29 PM

#1213 RE: DarthYoda #1209

Edward Jenner's vaccine wasn't a true vaccine in the modern sense. It was purposeful infection with a disease (cowpox) that, while closely related to the smallpox virus, was a milder disease than smallpox itself.

It was the last European pandemic kicked off by the Franco-Prussian war which led to the development of more modern vaccines. Actual eradication of smallpox in nature was due to a coordinated effort by the World Health Organization starting in the 1960s.