By 
Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut
 | 
TED-Ed Original

How do vaccines work?

The first ever vaccine was created when Edward Jenner an English physician and scientist successfully injected small amounts of a cowpox virus into a young boy to protect him from the related (and deadly) smallpox virus. But how does this seemingly counterintuitive process work? Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut details the science behind vaccines.

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