He didn't know it would work, that is why he tested it for both safety & effectiveness.
Note: vaccina is Latin for cow.
In 1967 the World Health Organization (WHO) started a worldwide campaign to eradicate smallpox. This goal was accomplished in 10 years due in a large part to massive vaccination efforts. The last endemic case of smallpox occurred in Somalia in 1977. On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly declared the world free of smallpox.
Smallpox had a devastating effect on Hispaniola, leading to a significant decline in the indigenous Taino population due to the lack of immunity to the disease. The introduction of smallpox by European explorers and settlers contributed to the near eradication of the Taino population on the island.
The World Health Organization certified the eradication of smallpox in 1979. Earlier during the 20th century smallpox claimed the lives up up to half a billion people. Since the only smallpox virus samples left remain in US and Russian bioweapon laboratories, the answer is no, global warming has no impact on smallpox. However, were weaponized strains to be released, the warmer temperatures would help accelerate the spread of the disease.
I think that Dame Jane Goodall vaccinated chimpanzee with the oral polio vaccine because at the time she did not know that vaccination not only does not prevent polio but it actually causes it. I would like to know whether and when she realised this well-documented fact established in humans.
anti measles vaccine is given at 9 months of age because before that the child has already got anti measles antibodies derived from her mother and the vaccine would be unable to elicit the response. At 9 months , we assume (in case of developing nations) that there are no maternal antimeasles antibodies left
Events that led to Edward Jenner's discovery of the smallpox vaccine.(APEX)
The history and work of Edward Jenner would be that he was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, who was the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine.
Edward Jenner tested his smallpox vaccine on a young boy named James Phipps. In 1796, Jenner inoculated Phipps with material taken from a cowpox sore, which led to the discovery that exposure to cowpox could provide immunity against smallpox. This groundbreaking experiment laid the foundation for the development of the smallpox vaccine.
Edward Jenner, an English physician, discovered the smallpox vaccine in 1796. He came upon this discovery by noticing that milkmaids who had the cowpox virus, a less threatening disease, did not catch the dangerous smallpox. Jenner then infected an 8-year-old boy with the cowpox. After six weeks, he exposed the boy to the smallpox disease and the boy did not show any smallpox related symptoms.Sone fun facts:-Jenner coined the term 'vaccine': 'vaca' means cow in Latin.-Before the vaccine, the death rate of the disease was up to 35%.
Dr Edward Jenner injected small boy who had smallpox with cowpox, after hearing from a dairy maid that people who got cowpox would not get smallpox. This worked and that's how vaccination came about.
That would be Dr. Edward Jenner.
"When he was young he was given smallpox on purpose. It was hoped that, because he was so young and healthy, he would survive and so live to tell the tale if he caught smallpox when he was older."
Observation and deductive reasoning. Smallpox was a scourge during Jenner's time, but he noticed that milkmaids contracted a very mild illness similar to smallpox called "cowpox", from which they recovered easily. He postulated that a tiny bit of the cowpox serum could be injected into a well person, and the mild cowpox might protect them from the deadly smallpox. It worked.
Well, Edward Jenner was my great great great great Uncle. He predicted that if you would inject the Cowpox virus into a person with smallpox, you would be amune to smallpox. His prediction was correct.
Because James Phipps had never had Smallpox and Jenner needed somebody who was not immune to smallpox or else this experiment would not work.
This did not happen suddenly in a single year, nor was Jenner the first person to discover this or use vaccination.English physician John Fewster had realized before 1768that prior infection with cowpox rendered a person immune to smallpox.In the years following 1770, at least five investigators in England and Germany (Sevel, Jensen, Jesty 1774, Rendell, Plett 1791) successfully tested a cowpox vaccine in humans against smallpox. For example, Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty successfully vaccinated and presumably induced immunity with cowpox in his wife and two children during a smallpox epidemic in 1774, but it was not until Jenner's work that the procedure became widely understood. Jenner may have been aware of Jesty's procedures and success.On May 14, 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by vaccinating James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy who was the son of Jenner's gardener. Phipps was the 17th case described in Jenner's first paper on vaccination, clearly Jenner had performed vaccinations before vaccinating Phipps.
Smallpox has been eradicated in the year 1977. Edward Jenner found a vaccine for the disease. Donald Henderson created ring immunization, which got rid of smallpox for good. Ring Immunization was the process of when an area had smallpox, everyone else in that area would get vaccinated... ---- I think that's how they got rid of smallpox. I'd check other sources if I were you like the CDC website.