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Originally Posted by ericthered
in TL5, small pox is the only disease that can be vaccinated against, and that has been the case for well over 100 years. At the beginning of TL6 researchers begin making vaccines for other diseases: a cholera vaccine is developed in 1879 (the first "Lab Vaccine"), and one Louis Pastuer starts work on vaccines for Anthrax and Rabies. Throughout TL6 vaccines will slowly be worked out for more and more diseases, one by one.
So I'd say Vaccination is a TL6 technology, but its not mature until TL7. Of course, TL8 continues to refine the techniques.
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Yes but the small pox vaccine used not smallpox for the vaccine but a similar virus that helped develop a immunity, the beautiful milkmaid from old tales, is so good looking, because the cow pox she had hadnīt left the ugly mess that small pox do, and made her immune to small pox of course.
The TL 6 way of vaccination was searching a virus / bacteria that triggered a immune reaction but was otherwise mostly harmless, it mostly luck and trial and error to find a useful sample. Or take hopefully dead material from a infected and bring it into contact with the person you want to become immune.
Since Pasteur and later in TL 7 the creation of vaccines by creating dead or weakened samples was the edge of technology.
Now in TL 8 maybe late TL 8 we understand genes well enough to manipulate them directly and create such a vaccine by purpose and not luck. Monoclonal antibodies help also, but are still cutting edge. Same goes for the method Biontech uses.
Another topic about diseases and worldhopping could be that many diseases donīt trigger immediately symptoms, a person which cught something nasty during visiting another world, could infect a large group until itīs to late, just think about a crossover of HIV and the plague. The search for patient zero and a trip to the world where he got it makes a exellent plot hook.