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2023-07-25 03:36:16 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A9669DE36211769828CDF874AC86E5345197B2276858CA027C53DB467171BDBF
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The first US inoculation came from creator of the smallpox vaccine Edward Jenner The source for Wells’ claim admits “a paucity of archival sources does not enable us to fully grasp the extent to which… practitioners of African descent practised inoculation in the Americas” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X98002072?via%3Dihub https://royalsociety.org/blog/2020/10/west-africans-and-the-history-of-smallpox-inoculation/
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