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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Variolation isn't vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it's an attenuated vaccine.

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