Global vaccination push that brought world 'arm-to-arm'
Date Time Global vaccination push that brought world ‘arm-to-arm’ As the roll-out of COVID vaccines proceeds, it’s worth looking back on the challenges and successes of the early global spread of smallpox vaccination. Author Professor in School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania Smallpox (also known by its scientific name, variola) was a horrible, highly infectious disease, with a case fatality-rate of 30%. In 1798, Edward Jenner, an English country doctor, published da...
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