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Vaccines vs. antibiotics: which is better?

Posted on November 17, 2007

By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.D In 1796 Dr. Edward Jenner performed an experiment that today would have got him expelled from his Medical Society, and maybe even landed them in jail. He vaccinated a boy against smallpox by pricking his arms with pus taken from the sores of a milkmaid with cowpox, a closely related but milder disease. He based this audacious experiment on his astute observation that milkmaids, who had been exposed to cowpox, never contracted smallpox. Let s not forget what smallpox meant in those days it meant an almost 100% chance of death. Could anybody have guessed that this ob...

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