Vaccines are very much on the forefront of everyone’s mind these days. While the arrival of a
Vaccines are very much on the forefront of everyone’s mind these days. While the arrival of a vaccination against COVID-19 is eagerly anticipated as a means of bringing the current pandemic under control, some elements continue to question the safety of vaccination. This debate is nothing knew, as this cartoon by James Gillray shows. It depicts just-vaccinated men and women sprouting cow features while an unconcerned Edward Jenner - the English physician who administered the first successful smallpox vaccination in 1796 - gashes the arm of a frightened woman. -- source link
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