Edward Jenner

The History of Smallpox Smallpox once covered the globe. In Europe alone, 400,000 people a year use to die from it. It used to be extremely infectious. Smallpox started with little brown dots on your skin called macules. After a while each little dot raised up into a bump called a papule. Three or four days later, each papule became a blister called a pustule, a hard round bead under the skin. The patient’s whole body was covered in these, but especially his face, hands and feet. Sometimes…

were influenced by men like Ignaz Semmelveis, Edward Jenner, O.W. Holmes, and John Snow. These physicians helped change the medical field. Edward Jenner was a doctor from England who lived 1749-1843 and he was the first person to come up with a vaccine for small pox. Jenner had worked as a doctor for many dairy farms throughout his career. From working on these farms he noticed the disease cow-pox, which came from milking cows who had the disease. Jenner noticed that the people who had been…

Scientific concept Spread of viruses To understand how vaccines are helpful in protecting us from the harmful effects of vaccines, we must first learn what viruses do to the human body. Viruses cannot survive alone, they need a host body to carry out basic functions. After entering a body they hook onto a host cell and insert their genetic material into it, gaining control over the cell. They then proceed to replicate rapidly before violently spilling from the cell and spreading to…

What is smallpox exactly? Smallpox is actually the nickname of the virus, the scientific name is Variola which may appear as V. major or V. minor. Variola virus is relatively stable in the natural environment. If aerosolized, it will retain its infectivity for at least several hours if not exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet light. Since the virus is two hundred and sixty by one hundred fifty nanometers and contains a molecule of double stranded DNA putatively coding for some two hundred…

He is saying that the jury process is one of the few ways that people can make sure that the government is following their own rules. People have been questioning the government system lately with everything that has been going on. For instance, Edward Snowden gave up his life to show the people of the United States what the government has been doing. Snowden was working for the government, making over six figures to provide for himself and his wife. All of that was gone as soon as he leaked the…

Vaccinations, Inoculations and Immunizations The human immune system is one of the most incredible, yet most complex, systems in the human body. Entire college courses are based solely on the body’s immune system due to its complexity and importance. The immune system is the body’s defense structure against viral and bacterial infections. It can communicate with the rest of the body, cause inflammation, activate cells, produce antibodies, kill infected cells, mark and disable pathogens, as well…

dates back as early as 1500 BC when there was no preventative measure for the now known disease named small pox. Smallpox originally known in English as the “pox” was an infectious disease caused by the variola virus. In 1796, physician Edward Jenner designed the small pox vaccination by studying the effects of the cowpox virus. This vaccination…

surrounding vaccines and whether they should be mandated for all children has become a topic of national interest. The controversies surrounding vaccines have long been on the forefront of scrutiny, as scientific research dating back to the days of Edward Jenner and Thomas Jefferson, made use of African slaves to experiment on the efficacy of inoculation with small pox-infected tissue from other humans; thus, raising many ethical and religious debates. The vaccine controversies continue as…

Vaccination or immunization is one of the cornerstones of risk reduction and public health response in regards to contagious disease. Since the initial smallpox variolation by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796, the science of vaccination against pathogens has expanded to include a multitude of endemic diseases including measles, influenza, polio, diphtheria, and smallpox as well as more specialized health concerns (often bioterrorism) such as anthrax and typhoid fever. Further, immunization science…

examples of human experimentation are Unit 731, where the Japanese Army amputated and dissected parts of the body without using anesthesia. An example of human experimentation that saved the most lives was for smallpox, however someone was killed. Edward Jenner, a doctor, injected what was to later be the vaccine into an eight-year-old boy. As a bold move that…