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What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 9 points 11 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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