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[–] standarduser@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think she invented the smallpox vaccine.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uhh that’s wrong… she invented smallpox

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

No, I remember learning about it at school. She found that people who caught cowpox (which was mild) never caught smallpox (which was deadly), so she took some stuff from a cowpox lump and injected it into a boy called James Phipps, who then, despite her best efforts to repeatedly infect him with smallpox, remained smallpox-free, therefore inventing the first vaccine.

[–] standarduser@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I thought that was Steve Jobs