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This exposed the native Taino people to smallpox
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Mostly because of smallpox
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AD-An african slave presumably spread smallpox to a soldier serving in hernando cortes’s army weakening Cortes's army substantially.
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The group that was struck in particular was located near plimoth colony
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Inoculation being a type of immunization where the person being vaccinated is given a minor case of smallpox having a much lower death rate than the normal way of getting smallpox, so people found this preferable.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu finally got the European elite to (and thus the public to) test inoculation
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An inoculation test was run on 6 death row prisoners who had not had smallpox were given the option to be inoculated if it made them immune to smallpox then they would be released from jail
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The basis for the smallpox vaccination was born as Dr. Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids who received cowpox (a disease in cows were painful pustules form on a cow’s udder).
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Edward Jenner tested his theory about cowpox on multiple children including his own son after these children were injected with pus from cowpox pustules they didn’t show symptoms of or transmit smallpox most of the time for the rest of their lives
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With the diseases spreading faster due to unsanitary medical procedures scientists make a breakthrough the disposable needle used to this day
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This plan initiated by the WHO required the US and the then Soviet Union to work together!
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Jainet Parker was the last person to die of naturally occurring smallpox
