Daily MOS: The 1959 USSR Smallpox Outbreak That Wasn’t
9.5 million vaccines were distributed, and over 9,000 people were quarantined, ending the outbreak. This all happened in just nineteen days.
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Daily MOS: The Eradication of Smallpox, Part II
A veritable army of 135,000 doctors from 170 countries made over a billion house calls to bring the last stand of smallpox to an end.
Daily MOS: The Eradication of Smallpox, Part I
Long before Edward Jenner’s alleged revelation with the milkmaids was the “prevent smallpox by snorting diseased flesh like cocaine” racket.
Daily MOS: Onesimus, the Slave who Taught the Colonizers to Vaccinate
A smallpox epidemic hit in the hub. With that came the New World’s first introduction to the concept of variolation. But they didn’t choose to adopt this life saving technology en masse.