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have the courage to do this,'' he said. ``You can never rule out the possibility of a few very rare individuals having side effects. But I believe the evidence is quite good that it's the best way to prevent cervical cancer.''

''And there's the really unfounded fear that the vaccine might trigger autism,'' he said. ``It's unrelated.''

Vaccines have come a long way since the first smallpox vaccine was created in England by a rural physician, Dr. Edward Jenner, Goldschmidt noted. He noticed that dairy farmers routinely exposed to the relatively benign disease cowpox seemed less likely to get deadly smallpox. So, in a radical experiment, he exposed a young boy to cowpox, waited a few weeks for immunity to develop, then exposed him to smallpox.

''He was immune,'' Goldschmidt said. ``But I dare you to try that experiment today.''

Source-Bio-Bio Technology
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