Did he die from a smallpox vaccine or a smallpox inoculation? The process of inoculation involved deliberately infecting someone with hopefully a mild case of smallpox. If successful the patient had a lifetime immunity against the disease, but it could go wrong and the patient could die from the smallpox.
The vaccine, which according to Wikipedia, came after Edward’s death. It involved introducing cowpox virus which is close enough to smallpox as to give immunity from the deadly disease. The ‘vacc’ in vaccine comes from the Latin vacca—cow.
no cow jab for me
The ‘vacc’ in vaccine comes from the Latin vacca—cow.
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