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and Thomas Jefferson on these shores.
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Jenner's method, then, was a means to combat
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smallpox.
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And unlike inoculation, vaccination didn't introduce an
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infection of smallpox itself,
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and therefore had no risk of setting off an unintended epidemic.
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It also had a low risk of serious complications for the
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individual patient,
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and no risk at all for the community.
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But there were problems with Jenner's method,
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and it was to require a series of subsequent improvements to
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make vaccination a fully successful procedure.