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Blame It On Jenner

Edward Jenner vaccinated his own children [except with cowpox, not smallpox] to test what centuries of peasants and village folk already knew—that inoculations saved lives.  Many people in rural areas of Greece, Arabia, North Africa, Persia, India, and China used smallpox scabs and pustules to inoculate themselves and their families.

Occasionally the procedure would backfire, and patients would get really sick, and some would die.  Jenner’s discovery of milkmaid’s immunity to smallpox [via exposure to cowpox], brought to his attention by another milkmaid, led him to the use of cowpox for a safer inoculation technique. Dr. Jenner wasn't the first to experiment.....in 1774 Benjamin…

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 Blame It On Jenner

Edward Jenner vaccinated his own children [except with cowpox, not smallpox] to test what centuries of peasants and village folk already knew—that inoculations saved lives.

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The Febrile Muse

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All the Virology on the WWW

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BacterioFiles

The podcast for microbe lovers, dedicated to promoting the exploration of the mostly-invisible world that is all around us.

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Since 1994, the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) has been preparing systematic reviews on the benefits and harms of healthcare interventions for infectious diseases, particularly malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhoea, and tropical diseases.

FluTrackers.com

Tracking Infectious Diseases since 2006.

IDCareLive

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Microbe World

A video podcast highlighting the latest in microbiology, life science and biotechnology news.

microTalk

Discussions with researchers in the field of infectious diseases. microTalk is hosted by Karl Klose and colleagues from the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID).

RID

Protect Yourself With Rid's 15 Steps for Patients and 10 Steps for Students. When RID began in 2004, hospital infection rates were kept secret and government agencies did far too little to address the problem. Since then, twenty-six states and The District of Columbia have enacted laws requiring hospitals to disclose their infection rates to the public.

The Microbiology Network

The Microbiology Network serves as a communication resource for the microbiology and biotechnology communities serving pharmaceutical, medical device and personal products industries.

This Week in Virology

This Week in Virology (TWiV) was started in September 2008 by Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier, two science Professors at Columbia University Medical Center. Their goal was to have an informal yet informative conversation about viruses which would be accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background. We wanted to eventually bring other virologists into the conversation, to make it more varied and interesting.

Virology Down Under

Virology Down Under is a suite of pages providing information about all sorts of human viruses. RNA viruses, DNA viruses, big viruses and small viruses. VDU also explores what makes viruses tick.

MedPage Today

Infectious Disease Information Center.