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Immunization
New immunization study findings have been published by scientists at North Carolina State University
May 12th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "Focusing on colonial Punjab, this article explores how agrarian lower-class families' pursuit of safe and effective protection from smallpox shaped the region's prophylactic practices during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "Specifically, die article explains shifts from variolation in conjunction with Sitala (smallpox goddess) worship to vaccination in conjunction with Sitala worship; from vaccination with crusts to vaccination With human and animal lymph; and front vaccination with fresh lymph to vaccination with tubed lymph. The article also illustrates how, regardless of the particular technologies...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-12)
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