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MARCH 4, 2022
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MAKING SMALLPOX
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ctually, the world’s public health community did more than make smallpox small; as the font above is meant to suggest, they all but made it invisible. That is an amazing accomplishment. Consider that even recently smallpox was still regularly killing hundreds of millions of people. During the 20th century alone, an estimated 300 to 500 million people succumbed to the disease, including roughly 50 million during the 1950s alone. Smallpox has been a literal plague on the human race since pre-Christian times. It’s suspected that one of the earliest smallpox victims known by name was Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses V, who died in 1157 B.C. It kept on killing for centuries. Please see SMALLPOX page 5
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esistance to mass vaccination programs has a history almost as old as vaccinations themselves. There is, for example, England’s famous Leicester Demonstration March of 1885, when as many as 100,000 anti-vaccinators led an elaborate march against a smallpox vaccination campaign, complete with banners, a child’s coffin, and an effigy of Edward Jenner, the discoverer of the smallpox vaccine. Conversely, in other eras people cheerfully stood in line for hours to be vaccinated to escape some dreaded disease. In 1947, for instance, a Mexican businessman, unaware that he had been exposed to smallpox, travelled by bus to New York City before discovering that he had the disease. Concerned about a smallpox epidemic in such a densely populated place, health authorities quickly launched a pre-emptive mass vaccination campaign. Within one month, six million people were vaccinated, including the thousands lined up on April 14, 1947 (above) outside Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx. Mass smallpox vaccination campaigns across the globe, coupled with the public’s cooperation, led to the eradication of smallpox. For more about what a tremendous achievement that was, see the following article. +
Since Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine was made from cows, critics suggested (only partly in jest?) that vaccine recipients could end up with bovine traits or body parts.
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