vaccination, n.Trivia

Human DNA is up to 8% made up of ancient viruses that used to infect us and make us ill

Elvis Presley helped raise Polio vaccine rates from 75% to 90% when he got his vaccine in front of the press in 1956.

In the early 1800s, opponents of the first smallpox vaccine feared that it would cause people to develop cow-like features.

Inoculation was introduced to America in 1706 by an West African slave named Onesimus, who taught his owner Cotton Mather how his parents inoculated him as a child. in 1721, Mather used this method to successfully combat a smallpox outbreak in Boston.

George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox despite popular resistance to the practice