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this is the real disease causing agent.
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If you just introduced this polio virus,
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which you could make in large quantities into people now,
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you would be causing polio.
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So, you couldn't introduce the live virus in
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because that would cause the disease not just immunity.
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Remember that the lucky thing about the smallpox vaccine was that
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a naturally occurring
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attenuated form of the smallpox virus variola
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called vaccinea was found.
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So, that was a naturally occurring attenuated virus
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that could be produced