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Findings from University of Tasmania advance knowledge in immunization
May 13th, 2009
"In histories of smallpox and vaccination, little attention has been paid to their progress in the southern latitudes. In this paper, I focus on the appearance of Smallpox around Sydney Cove in 1789 and the introduction of cowpox (vaccine) to New South Wales in 1804," researchers in Hobart, Australia report. "I demonstrate the connections, historical and virological, between the two events and examine the role of variolation in the spread of Smallpox and ill anticipating vaccination. I argue that imported ''variolous matter,'' perhaps obtained in Cape Town, may have been the source of infection in the catastrophic epidemic among the Aborigines in 1789. I likewise...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-13)
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