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the strategy of inoculation initially,
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and that becomes more
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definitively the strategy of vaccination.
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Well, let's begin with inoculation.
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What is inoculation?
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It was an empirical practice--we might call it a
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folk art-- and it was developed in various
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parts of the world as a result of two
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very simple observations.
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The first was that
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smallpox was clearly contagious.
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The second was that those who had recovered from the disease--