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Civil War Vaccine May Have Lessons for COVID-19

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Scientific American

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Vaccination used against smallpox during the Civil War reveals the identity of the distantly related virus used to keep troops disease-free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, it's Jamie Lange.

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And Sophie Abu, from the podcast.

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I'm Suzanne Bard.

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Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in 1980.

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So generations of people have never had to experience the devastation the disease once brought.

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It could cause sometimes even an excess of 30% mortality.

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It caused these very painful blisters that covered the entire body.

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McMaster University's Anna Duggan.

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She studies how genomes evolve. The first vaccine for

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smallpox was developed in 1796. It worked by infecting people with pus from pox lesions caused by similar but far less pernicious

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conditions like cow pox.

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