Drumbeat of vaccination
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The pandemic challenged the world to develop vaccines quickly
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The pandemic challenged the world to develop vaccines quickly
The recent launch of a long-awaited vaccine for COVID-19 brought to mind an image from my first exposure to mass vaccination in 1958. A drummer walked into an
agraharam at Manamadurai, a small village in Ramnad district of Tamil Nadu. The drumbeats brought out everyone from either side of the street chock-a-block with houses. In a singsong tone, he announced the need to eradicate smallpox, while his companion began his vaccination work.
I, five years old then, hid behind my aunt. Much as I resisted and kept my eyes tightly closed, I ended up having four vaccination marks, two in each arm. How did that happen? Even my aunt did not know, but she explained the vaccination process placing a drop from a container on the skin and scratching through it. My two-year-old brother mimicked it on everyone’
Updated Jan 03, 2021 | 13:22 IST
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