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Dramatic though they undoubtedly were, the advances in chemotherapy still left one important area vulnerable, that of the viruses. It was in bringing viruses under control that advances in immunology—the study of immunity—played such a striking part. One of the paradoxes of medicine is that the first large-scale immunization against a viral disease was instituted and established long before viruses were discovered. When English surgeon Edward Jenner introduced vaccination against the virus that causes smallpox, the identification of viruses was still 100 years in the future. Although his smallpox vaccine spread rapidly to America and the rest of Europe and ...(100 of 21288 words)

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