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Who demonstrated the first safe vaccination procedure to treat smallpox disease?
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How important of the prevention of disease was edward jenners discover of smallpox vaccination?
His discovery led to the eradication of smallpox around the world.
Why is 1853 an important date in the history of smallpox?
Because the british government introduced a complusory vaccination for the smallpox disease in 1853.
What disease related to smallpox was a key part of Dr.Jenner's vaccination experiment?
chicken pox
How did edward Jenner's invention help people?
His invention helped people because he made a vaccine to prevent smallpox, a deadly disease that killed lots of people. He did this by injecting cowpox(a mild form of smallpox)into a healthy hand. This gave immunity to the smallpox that he would later inject to the hand. His invention of the vaccination was a great success as people were still dying of the disease called smallpox so everyone would have done anything that remotely cured them of the horrid disease.
What is the qualification of Edward Jenner?
Dr Edward Jenner's qualification is that he found a vaccination for the deadly disease smallpox.
Are mumps eradicated?
No, the only infectious disease to have been completely eradicated by a coordinated vaccination program is smallpox.
Why did you think that the british government introduced compulsory vaccination in 1853?
An effort to control a very nasty disease (Smallpox) that killed many people.
Who was the inventor of the vaccine against smallpox and concluded that a person inflicted with cowpox disease will not be inflicted anymore by smallpox?
An English doctor by the name of Edward Jenner. He noticed that milkmaids got cowpox which was similar to smallpox, but much milder, and after a milkmaid had had cowpox, she did not get smallpox. So Dr Jenner tried to scratch the skin of volunteers with a needle dipped in to cowpox germs. The volunteer got a transient mild illness and did not get smallpox after vaccination. When Dr Jenner's vaccine was shown to be so effective, vaccination against smallpox became compulsory. Smallpox is now almost entirely eradicated and most counties stopped making smallpox vaccination compulsory in the late 70s and early 80s.
Why do we no longer vaccinate for smallpox?
Through vaccination, smallpox was wiped out by the 1970s. Today it exists only preserved in a few labs. The likelihood of somehow coming into contact with the disease is now so low, the vaccine would be much more likely to hurt you than the disease is.
How did Edward Jenner discover the smallpox?
He did not discover much about the actual disease, but he came up with the vaccine. the first EVER vaccine.
How smallpox effect the body?
Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease. There is no specific treatment for smallpox disease, and the only prevention is vaccination. The name smallpox is derived from the Latin word for "spotted" and refers to the raised bumps that appear on the face and body of an infected person. There are two clinical forms of smallpox. Variola major is the severe and most common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever. There are four types of variola major smallpox: ordinary (the most frequent type, accounting for 90% or more of cases); modified (mild and occurring in previously vaccinated persons); flat; and hemorrhagic (both rare and very severe). Historically, variola major has an overall fatality rate of about 30%; however, flat and hemorrhagic smallpox usually are fatal. Variola minor is a less common presentation of smallpox, and a much less severe disease, with death rates historically of 1% or less. Smallpox outbreaks have occurred from time to time for thousands of years, but the disease is now eradicated after a successful worldwide vaccination program. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949. The last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977. After the disease was eliminated from the world, routine vaccination against smallpox among the general public was stopped because it was no longer necessary for prevention.
When did Edward Jenner develop the technique of vaccination?
Edward Jenner in 1796 used the cowpox virus (vaccinia) to confer protection against smallpox, a related virus, in humans. Prior to this use, however, the principle of vaccination was applied by Asian physicians who gave children dried crusts from the lesions of people suffering from smallpox to protect against the disease.
