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🚨 THE DR JENNER'S HOUSE MYTH BUSTING THREAD 🚨
We've fielded loads of questions over the past couple of days about Jenner and smallpox and we just wanted to set the record straight on a few things. Get ready, it's a long old thread coming up! 👇 1/17
MYTH: "People have been vaccinating for 1000s of years"
FACT: Inoculation and vaccination are now used to describe the same thing, but historically inoculation referred to deliberate infection with smallpox virus with the intention of provoking immunity against smallpox... 2/17
... which is the process that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (AMAZING woman) introduced to Britain after seeing it practised in Turkey. Jenner's first vaccination in 1796 (originally termed 'vaccine inoculation') used a different, less dangerous virus, cowpox. 3/17
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