Ben Franklin's world is a production of the Omahaundro Institute.

The story that we in public health are always told in school is that Dr.

Jenner was out on the British countryside and he saw these beautiful milk

maids who had no scarring whatsoever and they were relatively older you know

in their 20s and he was wondering why they didn't have the scars that every

other person had because most everybody caught smallpox and he asked them and they

said we never had smallpox and he asked their parents and they said nobody in

the form kept smallpox and he said well have you ever had anything like smallpox

and they said oh yeah we've got the cowpox you know from the otters of the cows

but that's about it they just give us some postures or arms and they don't

develop into anything more than that and we don't get fevers and we don't get sick

and so Dr. Jenner says there's something there I'm going to study it further so

he performs these experiments my name is René Nahera I am a doctor of public

health I'm an epidemiologist I am the director of the history of vaccine

project from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia before it's a

eradication in 1980 smallpox was the most feared disease in many parts of the

world known as the King of Terror's and the disease of diseases the search for

a way to lessen and avoid smallpox was on as we investigated in our last

episode episode 301 the first major strategy for mitigating smallpox came

from the world's first immunization procedure anoculation anoculation involved

taking the pus from a mild case of smallpox and either drying out that

pus for inhalation which was a practice of inoculation performed in Asia or by

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