Cowpox

contact with the disease, your body will fight it with the antibodies it already produced and you will not contract the disease. The first vaccine was made by Edward Jenner in 1796 and was later developed in 1798. Jenner injected a young boy with a cowpox serum, that later successfully prevented the boy from contracting smallpox. After many medical and technological changes made to Jenner’s vaccine, smallpox was soon eradicated. When a disease is eradicated, it is completely destroyed. In the…

Buddhist monks consumed snake venom as immunity to the infections of a snake bite. Although, later in that century, Edward Jenner, became known as the founder of vaccinations. He revealed the immunity to smallpox by injecting a young boy with the cowpox virus. Through his success, the first smallpox virus was fabricated in 1798, creating the basis for all vaccinations to come. Eventually, European scientists added to the principles of the vaccination, such as Louis Pasteur and Alexander Glenny…

deadly viruses in 1796 with a vaccination against smallpox. Edward Jenner noticed that during this outbreak of smallpox the milkmaids were not getting sick. He then began to develop his miracle drug. His new vaccination consisted of a sample known as cowpox, an illness common to cows and milkmaids. Jenner injected his first vaccine into James Phipps, a young local boy. While Phipps did not feel well for several days he made a full recovery from the first vaccine in history. Later Jenner injected…

that is weakened to ensure that the body reacts by producing antibodies against the disease that you want to prevent. This revolutionary method was discovered by British doctor Edward Jenner in 1796, who found out that by inoculating people with the cowpox virus they were also protected from the smallpox virus and that the immunity could be passed from one person to another. I have to stress that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has no official policy on mandatory vaccinations, and I…

The first vaccine was created in 1796 by innovations of Edward Jenner, who used materials of the cowpox to create immunity from the smallpox (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2015). This continued with Louis Pasteur’s rabies vaccine in 1885, and continued with more vaccines to immunize against diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, cholera, plague,…

(measles, mumps, and rubella), have been used without adverse effects since the mid-1940s. (ProCon.org, 2017) Opposition to vaccines is not a new concept. It has been around silently since the 1800s. The idea of injecting someone with a part of a cowpox blister to protect them from smallpox faced a lot of criticism. The criticism was based on sanitary, religious and political objections. Some clergy believed that the vaccine went against their religion. Some forgo vaccinating because they are…

Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material to stimulate an individual's immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate morbidity from infection. When a sufficiently large percentage of a population has been vaccinated, this results in herd immunity. The effectiveness of vaccination has been widely studied and verified; for example, the influenza vaccine, the HPV vaccine, and the chicken pox vaccine. Vaccination is the most effective…

There’s a long history of smallpox since it has been around for thousands of years. The European settlers first brought smallpox to North America in the 1600s. In 1633-1634, the disease swept through the Northeast, wiping out entire Native American tribes. Native populations in New England are thought to have plummeted by over 70 percent due to this outbreak (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, 2012). Smallpox is spread when a person breathes it in and out. The virus gets inside the…

The Renaissance was a time period of rebirth, new discoveries, and developments. The sicknesses and the Bubonic Plague, or most commonly known as, “plague,” or, “ Black Death,” impacted Europe and other locations across the globe during the Renaissance years in a dreadful manner. The Bubonic Plague affected people during the Renaissance in an unwelcoming way. Even though the illness took many lives, it had a positive influence on society today because it changed medical treatments and advanced…

Vaccines are used to prevent dangerous diseases that can be not only harmful but also deadly. Vaccines have nearly eliminated disease & help prevent outbreaks. “A vaccine is a product that produces immunity from a disease and can be given by mouth, aerosol or needle injection. A vaccination is the injection of a killed or weakened organism that produces immunity in the body against that organism. An immunization is the process of when a person becomes protected from a disease.” (basics, n.d.)…