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Heidi Larson

Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start—And Why They Don't Go Away

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A milk maid shows her cowpoxed hand to a physician, while a farmer or surgeon offers to a young man inoculation with cowpox that he has taken from a cow.

Whack-a-Mole

Vaccine skepticism and misinformation have persisted since the smallpox epidemics. With the internet, it's only gotten worse.

by Rivka Galchen via London Review of Books on January 27, 2022

Rahima Banu

Coronavirus: Lessons From Past Epidemics

Dr. Larry Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox, says past epidemics can teach us to fight coronavirus.

via Retro Report on March 19, 2020

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