Modern vaccines date back to British doctor Edward Jenner's 1796 work immunizing children using pus from cowpox blisters.

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"If you have somebody who has an infection -- he has a draining infection -- and he gets some of his pus on a bench, that staph's going to be there for hours or days before it dries out, " he said.

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