In a 1777 letter George Washington said troops had more to fear from the smallpox virus 'than from the Sword of the Enemy.'
Debate has raged over the vaccines, with critics citing safety and freedoms as dissuasive factors. Yet the statistics indicate the majority of new cases are among those who haven't been vaccinated.
Smallpox, caused by the variola virus, had been brought to America in the 17th century, and is described by the CDC as a"terrible disease," killing three out of ten people who contracted it. At the time inoculation, which involved being infected with a less-deadly version of the disease, often with the pus or scab matter from an existing patient, involved quarantining for a few weeks while infectious.
An excerpt said:"Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army... we should have more to dread from it, than from the Sword of the Enemy." But it was a major success, as isolated pockets of small pox outbreaks among continental troops"failed to incapacitate a single regiment," the LOC noted.
L. Ron Howard replied:"You mean like George Washington? The one who mandated vaccinations for the troops?"
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