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Enter the trenches of the bloodiest battles you've never heard of: the Vaccine Wars. Professor Christopher A Shaw discovered, after a deep-dive literature searc

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A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.

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