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Video: What we can learn from a book documenting the first vaccine, for smallpox

  • Written by Anurag Papolu, Multimedia Editor
imageCaricature of vaccination scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras Hospital in London, by James Giray, 1802.Library of Congress

As the world waits anxiously for a COVID-19 vaccine, Sam Lemley, curator of special collections at Carnegie Mellon University, says that the story of the first vaccine is worth revisiting today. As...

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