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[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 weeks ago

Noticing the connection between cowpox and smallpox helped develop a safer vaccine, but prior to that in China and India they invented variolation (grinding up and applying the scabs to cause a milder infection) centuries before European vaccination experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation

Mostly I hate the internet but then you have people who know interesting things and I'm all "fuck yea, internet!"

Then unread the next thread and some dickhead starts things off so idk.

this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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