There were no Vaccines in 1905
Close. Smallpox variolation was considered a vaccine.
It was mandated and taken to scotus where they lost.
Vaccines began in 1798.
1798 General vaccine programs against cowpox instituted in the US.
1801 First widespread experimentation with vaccines begins.
1802 The British government gives Edward Jenner £10,000 for continued experimentation with ‘smallpox vaccine.’ The paradigm that vaccines provide ‘lifetime immunity’ is abandoned, and the concept of ‘re-vaccination’ is sanctioned.
1822 The British government advances Edward Jenner another £20,000 for ‘smallpox vaccine’ experimentation. Jenner suppresses reports which indicate his concept is causing more death than saving lives.
History repeats itself nicely.
Jacobson vs Mass 1905 was specifically about smallpox inoculation which did exist at the time. The first use of the smallpox inoculation was in the early 1800s having been discovered in 1796 that cowpox infection conferred immunity at 95% to it’s closely related smallpox cousin. By the 1800s people had been growing cowpox on purpose in cattle to then inoculate people with it thus creating the world’s first vaccination with live virus.
There was at least a vaccine for smallpox. It’s the model for what we understand vaccines to be.
Ah! My apologies to you for piling on!
“There were no Vaccines in 1905”
I was wondering about that...
LOL....great point to this fail, STATES rights ‘precedent’ cited by this lawyer.