frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days agoWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?message-squaremessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down111
arrow-up170arrow-down1message-squareWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days agomessage-square106fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 days agoI have one for this! I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?” I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF) She said George Washington!
minus-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 day agoIn France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoPour être honnête je connais pasteur pour (choquant), la pasteurisation. Cela dit ma réponse a “qui a inventé la vaccination” aurait été “euuuuuh”.
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 days agoVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 day agoIn the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoEven I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Pour être honnête je connais pasteur pour (choquant), la pasteurisation. Cela dit ma réponse a “qui a inventé la vaccination” aurait été “euuuuuh”.
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing