🕰️🛡️ Immunization practices began as early as 1000 CE in #China through a process known as variolation. This comprehensive #history explains how early folk remedies changed into the modern #vaccines used to eradicate #diseases like #smallpox and manage global #health.

👉 https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2913/a-history-of-vaccination/

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From smallpox to COVID: Vaccines that changed history.

The field of public health was transformed by the introduction of vaccination, from the Latin word “vacca” meaning cow, to guard people against infectious diseases. It was well known that exposure to...

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