| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child 07:46 - May 14 with 1208 views | bluelagos |
that went onto to save more lives than any other act mankind has ever done...
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:49 - May 14 with 1168 views | DJR |
Louis Pasteur? |  | | |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:50 - May 14 with 1165 views | bluelagos |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:49 - May 14 by DJR |
Louis Pasteur? |
Not this time... | |
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:50 - May 14 with 1164 views | andytown |
Smallpox vaccination? |  | | |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:51 - May 14 with 1157 views | Swansea_Blue |
Facters gave his great, great, great, great, great grandchild a chemistry set who then went on to create Old Spice thus ensuring the attractiveness of all blokes and guaranteeing the survival of the species? |  |
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:53 - May 14 with 1135 views | bluelagos |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:50 - May 14 by andytown |
Smallpox vaccination? |
Yeah.
Vaccinate yer kids people - and fck the morons who spread lies about them in a bid to somehow look clever...
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 08:00 - May 14 with 1090 views | Steve_M |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:53 - May 14 by bluelagos |
Yeah.
Vaccinate yer kids people - and fck the morons who spread lies about them in a bid to somehow look clever...
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I didn't know they had microchips then etc etc. |  |
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 09:05 - May 14 with 911 views | Trequartista |
See this is what I always think of with vaccines and is why all my children were fully vaccinated, but then Covid came along and it was “here is a Covid vaccine but you’ll still get Covid” so you can see how people thought hmmm Jenner wouldn’t give his kid this. [Post edited 14 May 9:22]
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 09:14 - May 14 with 887 views | BloomBlue |
water purification? |  | | |
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 10:02 - May 14 with 794 views | Churchman |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 09:14 - May 14 by BloomBlue |
water purification? |
If you are thinking of water borne diseases like cholera, it was John Snow that discovered the link in the 1850s after mapping cases around a water pump in Soho. Before that, diseases like cholera were thought to be air borne (miasma). |  | | |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 10:21 - May 14 with 763 views | Swansea_Blue |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 09:05 - May 14 by Trequartista |
See this is what I always think of with vaccines and is why all my children were fully vaccinated, but then Covid came along and it was “here is a Covid vaccine but you’ll still get Covid” so you can see how people thought hmmm Jenner wouldn’t give his kid this. [Post edited 14 May 9:22]
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The answer to that should have been fairly easy, given that it reduced the severity of symptoms and it’s also estimated the vaccines prevented about 14 million deaths in their first year alone.
There are some issues of course (as there are with any medical intervention). It’s a shame that the environment of paranoia promoted by the anti-vaxxers and the understandable push back to that pretty much cut dead any chance of a sensible discussion around risk. There will be a lot of data now around any adverse effects though, so I expect the levels of risk are known if not necessarily communicated well.
Has anyone kept them up. I stopped after the second as I assume my age group dropped out of the priority list. | |
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 12:08 - May 14 with 600 views | BlueBadger |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 09:05 - May 14 by Trequartista |
See this is what I always think of with vaccines and is why all my children were fully vaccinated, but then Covid came along and it was “here is a Covid vaccine but you’ll still get Covid” so you can see how people thought hmmm Jenner wouldn’t give his kid this. [Post edited 14 May 9:22]
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Most vaccines will have have a degree of varying effectiveness in terms of disease prevention(flu, for example is around 50-60% effective), what they will ALL do is train your immune system to fight said disease(and without complications) without you having to contract the disease and suffer the symptoms(and potential hospital admissions, death or long term complications).
People in Jenner's day had can be forgiven their ignorance given that immunology was an unknown branch of medicine at that point, they don't have that excuse today day. |  |
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 12:08 - May 14 with 598 views | BlueBadger |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 08:00 - May 14 by Steve_M |
I didn't know they had microchips then etc etc. |
They had amazing wi fi reception in the 18th century, it turns out. | |
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 21:06 - May 14 with 305 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 07:53 - May 14 by bluelagos |
Yeah.
Vaccinate yer kids people - and fck the morons who spread lies about them in a bid to somehow look clever...
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I'm not sure about the ethics of it all. Clearly he was right and so it was a brilliant thing to do. Had he been completely wrong it would have been roundly condemned wouldn't it?
I also can't imagine how long they had to make the poor lad stand with that needle in his arm in order to take that photograph! |  |
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| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 23:16 - May 14 with 217 views | mellowblue |
| 229 years ago today - a man did something to a child on 21:06 - May 14 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I'm not sure about the ethics of it all. Clearly he was right and so it was a brilliant thing to do. Had he been completely wrong it would have been roundly condemned wouldn't it?
I also can't imagine how long they had to make the poor lad stand with that needle in his arm in order to take that photograph! |
Hardly a photograph in 1796 !
Edward Jenner's house is now a museum and is pretty much next door to Berkeley Castle, so it makes for a decent day out. Off the M5 in Gloucestershire. | | | |
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