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...Thompson's is a fascinating story in its own right: a songwriter (she wrote Houston's I Have Nothing with Foster) and actress (15 years on the country-music TV show Hee Haw), she once lived for . five years with Elvis Presley and was later married to Olympian Bruce Jenner...
There are many precedents for studying people with natural immunity in order to devise vaccines. In fact, the famous vaccine developed by England's Edward Jenner in 1796 resulted from his observation that milkmaids who had gone through bouts of cowpox enjoyed natural protection against the much deadlier smallpox. Plummer hopes his HIV-free prostitutes can play the same role today that Jenner's clear-skinned milkmaids did nearly two centuries...
After studying the problem, Jenner eventually developed a relatively safe and effective method for "vaccination," from the Latin root of vacca, for cow. Breaking open swollen blisters from the milkmaids' hands, Jenner produced a primitive vaccine and injected it into the arms of his patients...
...worked in 1796. And less than two hundred years after Jenner's first vaccine, doctors can claim to have completely wiped out smallpox infections...
Despite the long hours, Siber seems he is happy to continue the legacy of Jenner and Salk...