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The Gruesome History of Smallpox Vaccines
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In the 1870s, vaccines were quite different from what we have now. Smallpox vaccines at that time involved cutting a person's arm open with a razor blade and shoving a scab from someone else's smallpox lesion into the wound, resulting in a significant percentage of vaccinated people dying.

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