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So let me tell you a story about the very first vaccine in history and the unusual way that

they had to distribute it around the world. The story gets started in the late 1700s with

Edward Jenner. He was a British doctor who observed that people who came down with a disease called

cowpox would not come down with the related and far-deadlier disease of smallpox. And if a

time smallpox was probably the scariest disease on earth, it spread very, very quickly and people's

bodies, their skins would erupt in these awful, fluid-filled, pus-filled sores. They got

everywhere on your body, including your face, and up to half of all people died of it. And even

the survivors were left with nasty scars on their face, they were often stricken blind. So smallpox

was a horrible, horrible disease. And Jenner's vaccine was a huge breakthrough because it could

prevent smallpox. But in some ways, Jenner discovering this vaccine, the cowpox vaccine,

was actually the easy part. The harder part proved to be getting it to people. Remember this was

the late 1700s. They didn't have modern transportation. They did not have modern manufacturing to

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