VACCINATION :
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Two centuries ago, an English physician named Edward Jenner, realised that milkmaids who had cowpox didn't catch smallpox even during epidemics, cowpox is a very mild disease.
Jenner tried deliberately giving cowpox to people and found that they were now resistant to smallpox, because the smallpox virus is closely related to the cowpox virus.
'Cow' is 'Vacca' in Latin and cowpox is "vaccina". From these roots the word "Vaccination" has come in to our usage.

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