Anti-Vaxxers

A children's ‘comic book’ from 1904, against vaccination for smallpox

Norman Pagett
2 min readSep 3, 2020

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You might have thought the anti-vaxxers were a recent phenomenon, but no, these clips are from the ‘Buster Brown’ comic strip, published in the New York Herald in 1904, when smallpox was endemic throughout the world

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