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How do vaccines work? - Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut

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The first ever vaccine was created when Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, successfully injected small amounts of a cowpox virus into a young boy to protect him from the related (and deadly) smallpox virus. But how does this seemingly counterintuitive process work? Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut details the science behind vaccines.

Since we have our immune system to protect us from disease, why do we still need a vaccine?

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  • Educator Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut
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  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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