frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?message-squaremessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month agomessage-square158linkfedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI have one for this! I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?” I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF) She said George Washington!
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoIn the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoEven I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
minus-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoIn France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoSame here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming