vaccine, n.Trivia

In Switzerland rabies was virtually eliminated after scientists placed chicken heads laced with live attenuated vaccine in the Swiss Alps, which the foxes (the main carriers of the virus) ate and therefore immunized themselves.

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

Handwashing with soap is a more effective way to prevent disease than any vaccine out there (according to World Health Organization and UNICEF)

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.

Benjamin Franklin became a vocal advocate for inoculation after losing his oldest son to smallpox.

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