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to produce antibodies, or teaches immune cells
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to recognize and attack the organism,
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that we now know perhaps to be a virus,a bacterium,
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or a parasite of a different kind.
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The problem, of course,
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was how to stimulate immunity without causing disease.
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Jenner benefited from the cross-over immunity
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from cowpox to smallpox.
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Pasteur did something else.
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He used the concept of attenuation.
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Jenner is the father of immunology, in a sense,
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Pasteur the founder of experimental immunology.