Did the Vaccine Eradicate SmallPox

Did you know the original smallpox vaccine caused serious injuries—and was often contaminated with pus, bacteria, and fungus?

You’ve been told it eradicated a deadly disease. But what if that’s just a “fairytale”?

What you almost never hear about the smallpox vaccine is how it was made or how many people it seriously injured.

On the Rogan podcast, Dr. Suzanne Humphries described what often happened to children who received the vaccine, saying, “Sometimes the arms became necrotic, sometimes the disease spread all over the place.”

Many developed large ulcers, high fevers, and widespread infections. With no antibiotics available, treatments were limited to mercury, arsenic, bloodletting, or isolation in dark rooms. These severe reactions weren’t considered rare. In fact, they were referred to at the time as “a good take.”

What made matters worse was how the vaccine was produced. According to Dr. Humphries, it was made by infecting animals and harvesting the resulting pus.

“They would take pus from other animals, scratch it into the belly of a cow, then take the pus off of the big pimples that would form,” she said. The material—called “pure lymph”—often came from cadavers, horses, or ulcerating cow udders, mixed with glycerin, and injected into people.

Even decades later, contamination was still an issue. “There was more bacteria and fungus in the smallpox vaccines than there was smallpox virus,” she said, citing data that extended into the early 2000s. One widely used version, Dryvax, was eventually considered so problematic that health authorities ordered all remaining specimens destroyed around 2009.

Joe Rogan added that the living conditions at the time were “a disaster.” Streets were filled with human and animal waste, there was no running water, and sanitation was nearly nonexistent. Dr. Humphries agreed, noting that poor hygiene and co-infections made smallpox far more deadly than it might have been otherwise.

Despite all this, the smallpox vaccine is still presented as a flawless triumph. But for those who experienced the injuries firsthand, and for those who study its full history, the story isn’t so simple.

“This is the one vaccine that eliminated, eradicated a disease,” Dr. Humphries said sarcastically. “Can you believe that fairytale?”

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