A Brief History of Vaccine Disasters (I'm just listing them. He actually explains them BUT THEY WERE DISASTROUS)
- In 1798, the smallpox vaccine
- In the 1800s and early 1900s, a variety of early vaccines (e.g., rabies, typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis) and horse-generated antiserums (for most of the common infections at the time) entered the market.
- In the 1940s-1950s, the original pertussis vaccine (DPT) entered the market.
- Between the 1950s to 1970s experimental vaccine (e.g., polio or the swine flu)
- In 1990, an experimental anthrax vaccine was deployed upon the military to prepare them for invading Iraq.
- In 2010, Merck convinced America’s women they were at a high risk of dying from cervical cancer (which in reality only kills about 1/38,000 American women each year)
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