Lamar Alexander

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Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Then in 1796, an English doctor named Edward Jenner saw that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox seemed to be immune to smallpox, so he scratched some pus from a cowpox blister on an 8 year old boy and the boy became immune to smallpox. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 9, 2020

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Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

According to the @CDCgov, there is evidence that smallpox was ravaging humans as early as the 3rd century BCE. The disease killed 3 out of 10 people who were infected. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 9, 2020

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Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Jenner published his results in 1801, leading to the development of mankind’s first ever vaccine, and no one on earth has naturally acquired smallpox since 1977. It is officially eradicated. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 9, 2020