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Who discovered cow pox?

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How were immunizations and antibiotics discovered?

Immunizations were developed by Edward Jenner in 1796, although it was first performed by a cow farmer on his family twenty years earlier. Jenner noticed that milkmaids were less likely to catch smallpox than the general population. He then noticed that milkmaids who had previously contracted cow pox did not catch small pox. He theorized that if somebody had had cow pox then they were immune to small pox. He tested this by giving cow pox to a young boy then injecting him with small pox. Although the boy experienced a small amount of illness when given the cow pox, he did not experience any nasty effects from the small pox, a far more dangerous disease. And hence vaccines were born.


What disease can be vaccinated using cowpox organisms?

Smallpox. Louis Pasteur discovered the vaccine for small pox, using the cow pox organisms.


What type of dinosaur did Edward Jenner discover?

he didnt find a dinosaur he figured out that people who had cow pox were immune to small pox. after this people discovered vaccinations.


What was the animal that helped with vaccine discovery?

the animal was a cow and the vaccine was discovered by Edward Jenner who cured small pox as well


Who discovered the vaccine for smallbox?

Viruses have been used since the time of Edward Jenner in vaccines. Jenner used cow pox viruses to inoculate people against small pox infection. There was great fears about his methods. Some people thought that cows might grow out of their arms. He never used the small pox itself but 'scabs' from cow pox lesions.


Who was the person that started vaccination?

Edward Jenner. He was testing cow pox (nonfatal) and small pox (fatal). He noticed that whoever had one never had the other, and some had neither. He put both into a boy, and then the boy was not affected by the small pox. Vaccine comes from vaccinia (lation) for "of the cow" because the cow pox stopped the small pox from working.


Who is Jenner?

Edward Jenner invented/discovered vaccinations. he found out that when he gave somebody a small dose of cow pox, (similar in its composition to small pox but non lethal) it made his patients immune to contracting small pox. He was a great man, one to be admired the world over.


Why did James phipps not catch smallpox?

The cow pox germs got in the way of the small pox germs, so he didn't get small pox.


Who found out that vaccinations keep away some diseases?

The first vaccination was discovered by Edward Jenner in 1795. He was at a farm where he noticed that the people who lived there who had been previously infected with the less harmful cow pox were somehow immune from catching small pox. Because germs and all that hadn't been discovered properly yet (that came in 1861), Jenner wasn't sure why it worked, but he created the first vaccination for small pox that contained a form of cow pox, and it worked :D. The word vaccination comes from Jenner, who used the latin word 'vacca', meaning cow. Hope this answered your question!He also heard a milkmaid boasting that she would't get smallpox because she had already had cowpox.


Who is an English physician who discovered vaccination in 1796?

Edward Jenner introduced a smallpox vaccine in 1796. He noticed that milkmaids rarely got smallpox and correctly surmised that exposure to cow pox was protecting them. After modifying the cow pox virus to make it less virulent he sucessfully showed that innoculation with it could prevent small pox infection. The word vaccination is derived from his work by taking the latin word for cow (vacca).


How is cow pox transmitted?

Cow Pox, also known as "The Date Rape Drug", is a small pill commonly slipped into females drinks at parties or small family get togethers.


Where can cow pox be found?

it can be found on the booty face or neck