Did you know....

[Aviendha]

Feel free to add your own little vaccine facts. One of my favorites is:

Salks (who invented the acellular polio vaccine) refused to allow his own children to be vaccinated!

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Are you sure about that? As I understood it, he vaccinated his children before the Francis trials... In my dark dim memory, I recall a photo of it somewhere...

[Barefoot]

The Quack Edward Jenner refused to vaccinate his second son after his experiment with his first son.
I suspect Edward Jenner picked up practise of inoculation from India from the Brahmins who were doing it Centuries before Jenner it seems.

[Nirvana]

The Quack Edward Jenner refused to vaccinate his second son after his experiment with his first son.
I suspect Edward Jenner picked up practise of inoculation from India from the Brahmins who were doing it Centuries before Jenner it seems.

I have never heard this before. Any links you can provide.

[Barefoot]

Here you go.
http://www.indianscience.org/dyk/t_dy_Q14.shtml

Edit:
http://www.montaguemillennium.com/familyresearch/h_1762_mary.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/lady-mary-wortley-montagu

Could she have inspired Jenner?

[Aviendha]

I will see if I can find a link, it was in some research about SV40 that I read (albeit about 10 years ago, but it really stuck in my memory)

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

The Quack Edward Jenner refused to vaccinate his second son after his experiment with his first son.


Do you have a link for this one???

Jenner revaccinated all his patients, every year, after 1805, so I find it interesting that he wouldn't vaccinate his second son... And I've not see that in anything I've read. perhaps I've not read it well enough....

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Perhaps, if we are going to use the word "fact", then it should be backed up by a reference, URL or medical article?

[Barefoot]

Do you have a link for this one???

Jenner revaccinated all his patients, every year, after 1805, so I find it interesting that he wouldn't vaccinate his second son... And I've not see that in anything I've read. perhaps I've not read it well enough....

It seems to be mentioned when looking at the history of Smallpox and Jenner.

http://www.elixirs.com/vaccine.cfm
http://harkless.org/steve/writing/The_Truth_about_Smallpox.html
http://www.whale.to/a/coleman_q.html

[Trogdor]

My fave tidbit...actually it's two...

One...some vaxes use MSG and that freaks some people out...and the ones that shrug at that usually balk at
Two... the whole aborted fetal tissue thing..

[Nirvana]

Thanks Barefoot. Never heard of that before. Jenner got all the credit :rolleyes: