Re:6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
by frud on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:25PM
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That's quite an injection if it can cure six children at once.
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Re:6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
by thfuran on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:12PM
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It must have been a pretty terrifying needle.
Re:6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
by inglor_cz on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:16PM
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That's nothing, one small kid with one remaining cowpox lesion was the source of vaccination material for Spanish America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmis_Expedition
(They took off from Europe with 22 kids and did an "infectious relay" in pairs. By the time they got to South American mainland, precisely 21 kids already resolved their cowpox. One last kid was still barely infectious, thus becoming the sole source of the vaccination material.)