Vaccination

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/2020
  

  This Montana Farm Boy Became a Scientific Legend, Developing Vaccines to Protect Kids Worldwide

  Maurice Hilleman helped develop vaccines that have saved millions of children from death from contagious disease.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/8/2020
  

  A Puritan Minister Incited Fury by Pushing Inoculation Against a Smallpox Epidemic

  In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal with a terror that bordered on hysteria.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2020
  

  The Case for a Free or Inexpensive Coronavirus Vaccine

  by Deborah Levine

  Jonas Salk understood that his polio vaccine was a common good. We should follow his lead.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-16-16
  

  Story of the Week: The man who developed a vaccination for smallpox

  by Andrew George

  Was his smallpox experiment really unethical?

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• 3-18-15
  

  When Did Mandatory Vaccinations Become Common?

  by Cristina Valldejuli

  Anti-Vaxxers are upset with mandatory Measles vaccinations. But mandatory vaccinations have a long history in the United States.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2-6-15
  

  The Puritans Were America's First Anti-Vaxxers

  by Peter Manseau

  The anti-vaccine movement today is not solely a religious in character, but much of its rhetoric is identical to theological arguments made against inoculation more than three hundred years ago.

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• 10-27-14
  

  Fear of illnesses from abroad is nothing new

  by HNN Staff

  The word quarantine -- French for forty days -- dates to the middle ages.

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• 11-4-13
  

  Peter C. Doherty: Pandemics Have Had "Enormous Influence" on History [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  The Nobel Prize-winning immunologist has just published "Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know."