Sunday, May 14, 2006

Happy Birthday, Vaccinations!


On this day in 1796 Edward Jenner performed the world's first successful vaccination, innoculating (as shown in this painting by Robert Thom) a young boy with cowpox to protect him from the scourge of smallpox - 25% of adults and 30% of children who caught it died, over 60 million in the 18th century alone.

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