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History of Technology 5: Vaccine Issues 14 Views
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Hold still...we're about to give you a shot...of knowledge. Lucky for you, we won't even need a needle.
Transcript
- 00:02
We wish the story of the vaccine ended with a round of applause and the [People giving a standing ovation]
- 00:07
elimination of all infectious diseases but it doesn't so wah-wah okay it's not
- 00:15
a total wah-wah by the end of the 20th century there
- 00:18
were vaccinations for measles, mumps polio rabies, diphtheria, cholera, yellow fever [Doctor giving lots of vaccinations to a child]
- 00:24
and several different hepatitis viruses well that's nothing to sneeze at or if you
Full Transcript
- 00:30
do you know, cover your nose there..but still the history of vaccination hasn't
- 00:34
been smooth sailing we've definitely run into more than a few problems like [Person sailing then hits a rock]
- 00:37
jagged reefs-sized problem the one issue has been mistakes in manufacturing there [Person using a pipette in a lab]
- 00:43
have been a few high-profile failures in vaccine manufacturing the famous one
- 00:49
was called the cutter incident which caused 11 people to die from bad polio [People dying on beds from bad vaccinations]
- 00:54
vaccine oops also many of the victims were kids so..
- 00:59
double oops there also have been various forms of social resistance to [Doctor shows an injection as mother and child run away]
- 01:04
vaccination for some folks it's been based on religious or spiritual beliefs
- 01:09
about life death in the role of science for others it's more about fear [People throwing books at a doctor in the street]
- 01:12
surrounding corporate and government involvement in public health
- 01:16
well potato potato now you have polio on the other side of the coin there are
- 01:20
some people who would love to be vaccinated but their trouble is [Man looking at screens of children receiving vaccinations]
- 01:25
they don't have access to vaccines and other healthcare for economic or
- 01:29
Geographic reasons finally there's the nasty fact that viruses are alive so [A green virus is zapped and dies]
- 01:33
like all other living things they evolved medical technology is fighting
- 01:39
an unending battle against an enemy that's constantly changing reappearing [Two men holding swords fighting a virus]
- 01:43
and mutating not to freak anybody out there even considering
- 01:46
all the setbacks vaccines were game-changers prior to vaccination
- 01:51
epidemics were something we just lived with you know like the rain or our [Man outside in the rain holding an umbrella]
- 01:55
significant others making us watch shows we don't like back in the day at any
- 01:59
moment something new and lethal could crop up in any village and there was [Green zombies appear in a village]
- 02:03
literally nothing anybody can do about it you think World War Z but with fewer
- 02:08
Undead and no-one even half as hot I guess as Brad Pitt, right? [People in a village sweating]
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