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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		The Vaccination Campaign that Came Before COVID-19
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:38
	Publish Date:		2021-05-19 11:38:04
	Description:		Many people in the Northwoods have gotten vaccinated against Covid-19, but a significant minority continues to resist vaccination. The reasoning against vaccination usually revolves around uncertainty for health and safety, and for reasons of civil liberties. These are old arguments, and not so different as those used during the smallpox epidemic. Our ancestors had to cope with the specter of disease and the possibility of death in ways that most of us cannot comprehend. There was a near constant fear that smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, and any number of childhood infections could strike and kill without warning. Of these maladies, smallpox was the most widespread medical terror of the past, and it was a particular concern in the Northwoods where it spread throughout the lumber camps. There was a nationwide smallpox epidemic at the turn of the twentieth century. Hundreds of people died in major cities across the United States, and smaller
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