frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 hours 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-square45fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down14
arrow-up136arrow-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 · 11 hours agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·11 hours 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-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoIn France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·10 hours agoVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 hours agoIn the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoEven I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
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!
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
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.
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing