I get that it's easy to start with Edward Jenner when you want to talk history of vaccines, but smallpox inoculation (maybe not with cowpox but likely with a weakened or related version of the virus) predated him in Asia and the middle east.
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Haha I could not remember the word variolation! Yes. But that's a type of inoculation, or is there a distinction I'm forgetting?
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I think inoculation implies a weakened form of the disease? I remember hearing on a podcast recently that variolation had a death rate of 10% because it basically just gave you a slightly less bad version of smallpox
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