frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?message-squaremessage-square129linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down12
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month agomessage-square129linkfedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoI have one for this! I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?” I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF) She said George Washington!
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoIn the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
minus-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoIn France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner