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Was Edward Jenner Actually First With Cowpox?

at 55:36

From the episode: Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice

Answer

Probably not. He was the first to conduct trials on multiple people and bring his results to a large and legit medical society. There was a person at least 20 years before Jenner’s discovery who infected his family to cowpox, but none of them were infected.

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