The FDA approves over the counter-naloxic, a nasal spray used in emergency situations

to treat opioid overdoses.

A federal judge in Texas strikes down an ACA provision that requires health plans to

cover preventive care.

North Carolina becomes the 40th state to expand Medicaid.

Once again, in America, children are murdered at the point of a gun in their school, this

time in Tennessee.

This is America Dissective.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.

What's that?

Famous quote about history?

Those who can't remember the past are doomed to repeat it?

Well, so much of the current political opposition to vaccines today didn't just happen yesterday,

or three years ago.

Antivacias have a long, sorted history.

Today, we're going back in history to understand the evolution of that history.

We're talking about smallpox inoculation campaigns that divided the country back before

it was even a country in the late 1700s.

Smallpox is a gruesome, deadly disease.

Think thousands of small, painful postures, pox, all over your body as you ride with a fever

and pain.

If you weren't one in three who died of smallpox, you were almost certain to bear the

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