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New Book: Vaccines Have Always Had Haters

This did not really happen. Cows' heads did not emerge from the bodies of people newly inoculated against smallpox. But fear of the vaccine was so widespread that it prompted British satirist James Gillray to create this spoof in 1802. (Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)
This did not really happen. Cows' heads did not emerge from the bodies of people newly inoculated against smallpox. But fear of the vaccine was so widespread that it prompted British satirist James Gillray to create this spoof in 1802. (Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)

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