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The discovery of a vaccination for smallpox was significant because it marked the first successful use of vaccination to prevent a contagious disease, leading to the eventual eradication of smallpox in 1980. This breakthrough not only saved millions of lives but also laid the groundwork for the development of vaccines for other diseases, revolutionizing public health. It demonstrated the potential of immunization as a powerful tool in disease prevention and control, fostering advancements in medical science and global health initiatives.
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A scientist that discovered and develop the way of preventing smallpox through vaccination?
Edward Jenner (1745)-(1823) he was an English doctor who discovered a way of preventing the smallpox and in doing so, developed the start of vaccination...
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 you think they made the vaccination against smallpox non-compulsory?
Smallpox was one of the first sucess-stories of vaccinations. So many people had the vaccine that Smallpox mostly died out. It is now only found in laboratories, and maybe in some poorer countries.
Why was the discovery of fossils so significant?
The discovery was significant because we found prove of pangea in other parts of the Earth.
How do you stop smallpox?
A man noticed how milkmaids did not get affected by smallpox, so they assumed that it was something to do with cows or milk that stopped them catching smallpox. I turns out that it was a similair, but less deadly, virus called cowpox that was preventing milkmaids getting smallpox. Cowpox was a vaccine against smallpox - meaning if you have had cowpox, you can't get smallpox.
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 was the death rate of smallpox before the vaccination in 1796?
i have no clue so ask some one els ok! i am not a computer i am a human look it up in a book or something are you thick ?
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.
What was the first vaccination that was developed?
Cowpox was used as a vaccine for smallpox in 1798. The first vaccination was a traditional cure in Turkey whereas babies were exposed to animals turd, upon discovering the fact that these babies became immune to diseases scientists concluded the way to methodical vaccination. It is against small pox and is discovered by E. Jenner in 1798. Although first recorded cured attempts to induce immunity were performed by the Chinese and Turks in the fifteenth century.
Who invented the small pox vaccination?
Edward Jenner found that people who contracted the cowpox virus didn't contract smallpox so he tested it out on a farmer's son who had contracted smallpox that week and he applied the liquid inside a cowpox sore to a cut and then after he healed from cowpox, he injected the liquid from a smallpox sore and the boy didn't contract smallpox.Which is how he found the vaccine...
How long does the smallpox vaccination last?
Vaccination effect of the small pox last for life time. You need to consider vaccinating the whole population against the small pox. It gives some protection against the HIV infection, probably.
Where can you catch smallpox disease?
You would have to ask the United States Military or the Russian Military as they are reputed to have the only remaining stocks of the Virus left in the world. Small pox is extinct in nature, it was wiped out by human science and a widespread vaccination campaign, thankfully and will kill no more people. So you can't catch smallpox disease.
