Vaccines & Vaccinations
The History
The first form of vaccination was used in the 1500s by the Chinese and it is called variolation. Variolation was the act of using the pus and liquid of the lesion, putting it on a needle and inserting it in the healthy person so that they could be protected by the disease when it comes to them. Then in the early 1700s, this method then moved onto Turkey where the royal family on the throne embraced the idea and had themselves inoculated. Moving into the late 1700s, this vaccination idea spread its way to England. In England, a young gentleman named Edward Jenner noticed that if you had cowpox, you never contracted smallpox, so he tested his theory. He used variolation against cowpox on a small boy, then he used it again but against smallpox on the same boy. The boy remained healthy and this method became the world's’ first vaccination. He then went on to name this way of protecting …show more content…
It makes the disease extinct if you will. Around the world many diseases have been eradicated so that no more people could get the disease again. By the year 1979 polio was eradicated after a widespread vaccination effort in the United States. In 1980, the World health Organization declared smallpox to be eradicated. They got smallpox by doing a ring vaccination which is the act of tracking down a patient of smallpox and vaccinated them really quickly. The last case of smallpox took place in Somalia 1977. A good reason why smallpox was eliminated was because it can only transfer through humans. So therefore it cannot be transmitted by any other animals and so it can easily tracked down. Unlike other diseases that can spread through everything. It is easily spotted so it can be easily dealt with. The elimination of smallpox raised that other diseases could also be eradicated. Although some disease are eliminated in some countries, they still “float” around somewhere
The History
The first form of vaccination was used in the 1500s by the Chinese and it is called variolation. Variolation was the act of using the pus and liquid of the lesion, putting it on a needle and inserting it in the healthy person so that they could be protected by the disease when it comes to them. Then in the early 1700s, this method then moved onto Turkey where the royal family on the throne embraced the idea and had themselves inoculated. Moving into the late 1700s, this vaccination idea spread its way to England. In England, a young gentleman named Edward Jenner noticed that if you had cowpox, you never contracted smallpox, so he tested his theory. He used variolation against cowpox on a small boy, then he used it again but against smallpox on the same boy. The boy remained healthy and this method became the world's’ first vaccination. He then went on to name this way of protecting …show more content…
It makes the disease extinct if you will. Around the world many diseases have been eradicated so that no more people could get the disease again. By the year 1979 polio was eradicated after a widespread vaccination effort in the United States. In 1980, the World health Organization declared smallpox to be eradicated. They got smallpox by doing a ring vaccination which is the act of tracking down a patient of smallpox and vaccinated them really quickly. The last case of smallpox took place in Somalia 1977. A good reason why smallpox was eliminated was because it can only transfer through humans. So therefore it cannot be transmitted by any other animals and so it can easily tracked down. Unlike other diseases that can spread through everything. It is easily spotted so it can be easily dealt with. The elimination of smallpox raised that other diseases could also be eradicated. Although some disease are eliminated in some countries, they still “float” around somewhere