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Teaching your immune system to fight a war by reading the enemy's diary.
means The act of giving someone a vaccine — a preparation that trains the immune system to recognize and resist a specific disease without causing the full illness.
from From Latin vacca, 'cow' — a genuinely bovine origin. In the late 18th century, the physician Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught the mild cowpox seemed spared from deadly smallpox, and he used material from cowpox sores to inoculate against it. The cow-derived procedure was dubbed 'vaccination,' from variolae vaccinae, 'cowpox.' Later the word was generalized to cover all such immunizations, so even your flu shot still carries a faint echo of a dairy barn.
- word origin
- From vacca, Latin for cow, via cowpox
- first jab
- Edward Jenner infected a boy with cowpox in 1796
- smallpox kill count
- Eradicated a disease that killed 300 million in 1900s
- variolation
- China was snorting dried smallpox scabs centuries earlier
- herd effect
- Vaccinating you also protects those who can't be
mrna covid-19 vaccines — pfizer-biontech and moderna vaccines deployed globally starting december 2020
smallpox vaccination — edward jenner's 1796 experiment; disease declared eradicated in 1980