I believe this is a popular part of the tale. Weird how so very long the Wikipedia article is yet it leaves out this relatively well known and, quite frankly, salient detail.
This happened after cowpox was discovered to prevent smallpox. Before cowpox they just inoculated people directly with smallpox. The strains were variola major and variola minor. Of course they'd try to use the minor version taken from someone who didn't die. George Washington inoculated his entire army with smallpox. Killing people with inoculation wouldn't have been strange to them.
Vaccines have never been perfect. There has always been a risk associated with them. Why there is a push to mitigate the acknowledgment of risk nowadays is the bizarre part.
Many people died from small pox vaccinations. That's why it isn't administered anymore. Unless you're active military they're not going to take the risk because the reward isn't high enough. That's the way it always has been. Why some people believe vaccines are 0 risk ventures today is just from intense marketing campaigns.
If there really were people dying in the street, which there aren't, then the risk presented by administration of a vaccine would be acceptable. This, however, is not the case and people are just too fucking retarded to think for themselves.
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If there really were people dying in the street, which there aren't, then the risk presented by administration of a vaccine would be acceptable. This, however, is not the case and people are just too fucking retarded to think for themselves.