The History of the Smallpox Vaccine: That Time When Everyone Got the Pox

The History of the Smallpox Vaccine.     EPISODE 1!  In this first ever episode of The Reluctant Historian, Liz and Dakota talk about vaccines, variolation, snorting scabs, cows, and the history of the Smallpox Vaccine.  They then take a quick dive into how all of this relates to the current COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Source Material:
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline/all
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/index.html

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