Beware the effects of vaccination!

[Silver Tabby]

On this day in 1796, Edward Jenner first innoculated against Smallpox by infecting a small boy with immunizing cowpox germs, taken from a milkmaid's hand. His opponents, however, spread the tale that those vaccinated would turn into cows, like "a child at Peckham who, after being innoculated with the cowpox, had his former natural disposition absolutely changed; so that he ran upon all fours bellowing like a cow, and butting with its head like a bull".


You have been warned! 

[klondike]

They do seem to cause politicians to talk bullshit. Or maybe they do that without any too. 

[dextrous63]

Was Diane Abbott born and subsequently inoculated in Peckham?  It would certainly explain a lot.😬

[klondike]

Poor Dianne. You really shouldn't mock the hard of thinking.

[dextrous63]

Aye.  She had it all.  Good school, oxbridge degree, glittering career ahead of her, well (privately) educated son, bit of jiggy jiggy on the side, TV kudos, .... Etc etc.

And then it all went horribly wrong.

[1955vintage]

I blame the House of Commons sweet trolley.

[dextrous63]

It's a pity, but if she does go round thinking that the entire Black Forest gateau is a finger food hor d'oevres..

[Ashy]

Some people were very poor in those days, so the milk probably came in handy.