Smallpox

Yes they did

She actually survived it! Not many people did back then.

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A long time ago smallpox was deadly, but now there are mandatory vaccines that you get.

No. The government did not create smallpox. It has been around for over 12,000 years.

No. Chickenpox did not come from smallpox they are 2 separate viruses.

Anyone and everyone who comes into contact with smallpox is at risk unless they have immunity to the illness. The good news is that smallpox has virtually been eliminated due to widespread use of vaccinations. Vaccinations worked so well that they are no longer needed.

Edward Jenner was born on May 17, 1749, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, the son of the Rev. Stephen Jenner, vicar of Berkeley. It was he, who discovered the cure for small pox.

The story of smallpox says that he spoke to a milkmaid who claimed that she would never suffer from smallpox since she had previously suffered from cowpox. Jenner investigated this and found that just as the milkmaid had said, anyone who had suffered from the fairly trivial cowpox, seemed to be immune from the far deadlier smallpox. He then started to experiment with creating what would later be called a "Vaccine". He took cultures from the scabs of cowpox and from it created a fluid which could be used to purposefully infect a patient with a less virile version of cowpox.

The weakened version of the cowpox vaccine was sufficiently related to the smallpox virus to allow cowpox infected patients immune systems to learn how to react to smallpox and create antibodies to fight off the infection.

In 1802 Jenner was awarded £10,000 by the British Parliament for the discovery and a few years later he was given a further £20,000 (A vast sum of money at that time). Even though he was now a wealthy man, Jenner continued with his experiments and developed his vaccination system. He suffered from a stroke in later life and eventually died January 26, 1823.

He noticed, in his village where he was a doctor, that the dairymaids (woman who milk the cow) who had previously had Cowpox didn't get Smallpox. He got inspired by that and thought that they might have become immune to it. He also successfully tested this on a boy.

One day Edward was studying a milk woman who was milking a cow when he noticed she had cow pox that you get from cows. Smallpox was very common in those days so he started to wonder why most milk woman had not caught it yet? So he decided to test it on someone . he found a little boy just 8 and a bit years old and he agreed to help him. He deliberately gave him cow pox and the boy was ill with cow pox but he got better quickly . next he gave him some pus out of a small pox boil to see if he caught it. The boy was fine and Edward had found the cure.

Theoretically. Genetic engineering means changing the RNA/DNA of species, which could be the small pox. You could likely change it so that it's 'new' in some way, e.g. bypasses current immunities. However, that would require quite a bit of research and I'm pretty sure that's not allowed.

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A positive Tzank smear is not relevant to a laboratory diagnosis of smallpox variola.

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3.5million Aztecs died from the Europeans when Cortez found Mexico (later he defeated the Aztecs, claiming the gold, silver and other goodies)

Cowpox. Edward Jenner inoculated a boy with cowpox in early discovery of smallpox vaccine, it is part of the Vaccinia virus family

Most of the time they would bleed the patient with a tool called a lancet. Hope this helps!

they were finding out about immunity and immunisation

It has been both over the course of its history. It was a pandemic in 1870 when it infected most of the united kingdom. It has been an apidemic several times when it hit smaller communities particularly hard.

Smallpox is a INFECTIOUS DISEASE because you can catch it easily and it is common for people to catch it.

Ultimately, smallpox and other diseases like measles killed off most Native American populations, making it very easy for Europeans to take over the New World. The natives had no resistance to diseases that the Europeans had, and were much more suspectible.

Smallpox is the name of an infectious disease caused by a virus called variola virus, a member of the genus Orthopoxvirus, in the Poxviridae family.

The treatment for smallpox was to get a vaccination.

The smallpox vaccine comes from cows. Most diseases you a weakened form of the disease. However the smallpox vaccine is brought from cowpox. (closely related to smallpox but not as dangerous). You cannot get this vaccine anymore and if you did it would result in a bad reaction.

That would be Dr. Edward Jenner.

he saw milkmaids