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Which best explains why the dairymaids were immune to smallpox?

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Jenner, a physician and scientist, noticed that milkmaids generally didn't develop smallpox, a disfiguring and sometimes deadly disease. He guessed it was because they sometimes caught cowpox, a related disease that only caused mild illness in people.

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