With the Covid Pandemic still recently and currently on our minds, it’s easy to find some parallels where certain members of the public, for whatever reason are intent on NOT following the masses and abstaining from being vaccinated. Such was the case too in 1905 in Central Scotland, when Smallpox vaccinations were being rolled out. […]
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Glasgow Smallpox Scare, 1950
As the UK embarks on a massive programme of Covi19 Vaccinations, some of us of a certain age, may remember a time as a child where another programme of mass vaccinations was rolled out in Scotland It started in March 1950 when Indian Sailor Mussa Ali arrived in Glasgow, ill with suspected chickenpox. However, doctors […]


