MEASLES: Remembering the American Revolution
Remember from our history that George Washington had to fight to save his troops from smallpox. Washington was losing more troops to smallpox than in the battles of the Revolutionary War. He was the first to begin mass inoculation for military troops in February 1777, after smallpox infections escalated. A small amount of live smallpox was rubbed into a wound, inserted into a small incision in the arm or scratched into the skin.
Today, we no longer live with smallpox because we were able to eradicate it through vaccination. But we are seeing the effects of measles outbreaks in the U.S. and in other countries.
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