You know I think he's still living. I'm not sure.
I just looked it up, lol. He didn't invent the concept. Apparently the first vaccine to be called vaccination was the smallpox vaccine. They used the cowpox virus to inject in people. Apparently the cowpox virus doesn't make people sick but looks enough like smallpox that your body makes antibodies that will work against smallpox too. Cow in latin is
vacca....I should have remembered that. 4 years of latin, lol. Pretty brilliant.
But then Salk was the first one to use killed virus to create a vaccine. Equally brilliant since there is not always a less virulent but similar form of a virus to be had.
Then you got Pasteur....
Heck, I have to get a flu shot every year and apparently they track the flu around the world (WHO or CDC or both?) so they can predict what flu strain will hit us and produce enough vaccine for that strain before it gets here. Dude, that is amazing shit.
Good thing this is open conversation
Then you got Pasteur....