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Women and vaccinations: From smallpox to the future, a tribute to a partnership benefiting humanity for over 200 years
2009
Human Vaccines
Vaccines were first developed in England over 200 years ago and have made a significant positive impact on human society since. Not often realized is the intimate relationship shared between vaccines and women. Women were key to the initial development of vaccines; some were even advocating the concept of protection against infectious disease through prior asymptomatic infection (by variolation) before the publication of the report of the first successful smallpox vaccination in 1798. Since
doi:10.4161/hv.8805
pmid:19458487
pmcid:PMC9491306
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