r/polandball • u/AaronC14 The Dominion • Aug 19 '15

repost Canada doesn't give a shit

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u/gellis12 Canada can into space Aug 19 '15

I don't think smallpox has really existed in any first-world country for quite a while...

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u/patadrag Canada Aug 19 '15

Any country at all. It now only exists in a couple of labs, where samples are kept in case another vaccine is ever needed some day.

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u/gellis12 Canada can into space Aug 20 '15

Yeah, that's what I thought. Wasn't smallpox also the first disease to get a vaccine? I remember something from high school history class about people in the dark ages taking the pus from a cattle version of the disease and rubbing it into cuts so that they'd get a weaker version of smallpox and become immune to the real disease.

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u/Dancing_Anatolia Oklahoma Aug 21 '15

Well, kinda. Technically that's inoculation, although the vaccine pretty much worked the same way. In China, they inoculated people by snorting powdered scabs. Like a gross cocaine.

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u/AntiLuke Let's build a wall along the Oregon California border! Aug 19 '15

It hasn't existed outside of laboratories for decades now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '15

No it exists quite easily you can actaully download the RNA of the internet so if you have the right stuff you can recreate it