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In 1802, Jenner [1] published a short pamphlet in which he made the statement: “…it now becomes too manifest to admit of controversy, that the annihilation of the Small Pox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this practice.” Jenner was correct, but it took another 176 years to achieve this result.
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Fenner, F. (2011). Smallpox Eradication: The Vindication of Jenner’s Prophesy. In: Plotkin, S. (eds) History of Vaccine Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1339-5_5
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