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How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology

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Do You Know How to Vaccinate Against Smallpox?

There was a shortage of vaccinations during the american civil war. So doctors began to purposely infect enslave children with small pox in order to cultivate more vaccines. This is something called arm to arm inoculation, which is developed by an enslaved person. And i map it all out, how it works in various in various places. The point is that when we think about vaccination, again, on the backs of the dispossessed people in the world, this is what happens.

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