Montreal’s 1885 smallpox riot grew from damaged trust and resistance to compulsory vaccination.
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Montreal’s 1885 smallpox riot grew from damaged trust and resistance to compulsory vaccination.
Public officials had given fear room to spread, but their failures did not make the vaccine ineffective. Smallpox killed 3,259 people in the city.
The lasting lesson is pro-vaccine and pro-accountability: sound science needs trustworthy institutions.
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