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- Smallpox is a virus that causes headaches and high fevers soon followed by pox erupting over your face and limbs.
- For years, smallpox was one of the most feared and deadly plagues of the world. This is the crazy story of how it became obsolete.
- Smallpox was first seen in Egypt as early as 3,000 years ago, then China and Korea where it started it's deadly tour of the globe through trade routes and explorers.
- A method of controlling it was through variolation, which was taking scabs from the pox of an infected person and rubbing it into a healthy person, often an arm. These treatments were very expensive and difficult, so often only nobles and royals were able to afford the procedure.
- The idea of the smallpox vaccine came in 1796 when English doctor Edward Jenner noticed milkmaids, who had gotten cowpox, were now protected and unable to contract smallpox
- To test his theory, he decided to take material from a cowpox sore on milkmaid Sarah Nelmes’ hand.
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