vaccine opposition

 

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a lot of famous people opposed vaccine for smallpox in the early 1900s, and I should note that vaccinia did have a small but sometimes fatal side effect.

However, smallpox was highly fatal and the use of using mild smallpox pus to vaccinate people before Jenner found cowpox worked was a big debate in the 1700

Lady Montague helped popularize this in England after she saw it used by the Turks. But in the USA, the practice was introduced by Cotton Mather (yes the one behind the witch trials who later repented) because his black slave told him how it was used in Africa.

and one reason Canada is not part of the US was because the American army had many smallpox casualties. However, George Washington knew about innoculation and implemented smallpox innoculation of his army.

Japan public health

 

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actually hot baths might help: Raising the body temperature will kill the germ, hence the use of malaria to cure neurosyphillis in the days before treatment became available. Then there was mercury treatment:

Pysortherapy article on Wikipedia: THe problem is that you need 105 degrees. One way to get the temperature this high is using malaria.

why mosuitoes love me

Bioethics has a problem

a summary of Cardinal Sarah's lecture to the European Parliement is found at Catholic thing.

are Rabies cases in the USA missed by doctors?

from Sci Alert:

Over 90% of Human Rabies Cases in The US Aren't Detected, Study Finds

the story is that they found a person got rabies from an organ transplant. And the donor was never diagnosed as dying of rabies.

I remember a similar case in Texas where we had once sent a person for a heart transplant.

Records show it was only the fourth time in US history that an organ transplant procedure had transmitted the rabies virus (Lyssavirus rabies) from an initially undiagnosed donor. But what if these kinds of records are wrong?

Even though the Michigan patient fatality represents only the fourth known case of a transplanted fatal rabies infection – the first such instance occurring in 1978 – given how rare organ donation itself is, something just doesn't add up.

if you extrapolate the data to the general population it might suggest hundreds of cases are missed.

Soros

https://youtu.be/tJIstLdWXec?si=CTRnfDZJCFkbUapH

How the Russian Navy forced a Public health revolution in Japan against STDs