Smallpox

One of the most important medical interventions to date are vaccinations. Without them, it is hard to tell what diseases would still be running rampant. Although some of these diseases have been eradicated, it is still crucial to get the recommended vaccines. When people decide not to do this, they not only put themselves at risk, they put others at risk too. To help children get their vaccinations, programs have been set up to cover the sometimes expensive cost. Scientist studies have shown…

There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon for someone to die from smallpox, polio, bubonic plague, pertussis, measles, or diphtheria. Bubonic plague wiped out approximately one third of the population of Europe between the years 1347 and 1351, leaving whole towns abandoned and causing mass hysteria. In the year 1520, Spanish conquistadors brought Old World diseases to the Americas, and smallpox decimated the native population to the point of near-extinction. During the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds…

Smallpox is responsible for the death of hundreds of millions of people. It is considered the world 's deadliest disease ever. Vaccines have been around since 1796 when Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, discovered the vaccine by applying fluid from cowpox blister to an young boy 's skin. Although this discovery eventually brought an end to the smallpox outbreak, many people still argue against getting vaccinated. I have never thought that getting vaccinated can come with any…

The Columbian Exchange was a time period in which trading and exchanges were completed between the Old and New Worlds. The man in which it was centered around is Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer and navigator, who is credited with discovering the New World. Although he was looking for a quicker trade route to Asia, Columbus stumbled upon North America and changed the way people lived all around the globe. Exploration was a crucial piece of European life, so its not surprising that the…

senior writer at Times Magazine, once claimed, “Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It 's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.” The first vaccination was presented in 1796 by Edward Jenner (Fisher). Edward was attempting to remove smallpox from the human population. Since the work of Edward Jenner, more vaccinations have developed. Over time people have begun to question if vaccines are a smart and beneficial tool for curing or treating diseases. Currently vaccines are optional…

In the past, millions of people died from diseases one rarely hears about today. Advances in modern medicine have been tremendous in the past 50 years. Vaccinations especially have developed so that certain diseases such as rubella, smallpox, diphtheria, polio, and whooping cough are now prevented by vaccinations that we have today (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). People against vaccines say that children’s immune systems can fight these diseases on their own. Side…

worthwhile takes sacrifice. Lives are in jeopardy as the winter gets even more harsh on us, the soldiers of the American Continental Army. Valley Forge is a very cold, scary, place during this winter of 1776, not including the shortage of supplies. Smallpox is becoming a mass sickness at the camp and even the doctor is sick. We are all very weak and barely have enough food each day, if any. We haven’t had any meat in a long time, which means no protein. I have been in the field for nine months. …

vaccines are made, one must understand how they were first invented. The first inoculation, what most people think was in 1796, actually occurred in China in the year 1000. Historians believe that that the “vaccination” was snorting pulverized smallpox scabs. Smallpox and other diseases such as whooping cough, typhoid fever, measles, yellow fever, and many more spread throughout Europe and the New World for hundreds of…

Unique in nature, smallpox eradication was not born out of a post-WWII innovation, but an older vaccination that could almost completely (95%) reduce the incidence of the disease. Unlike other diseases Soper tried to eradicate, smallpox had no foreign vector, it was an airborne disease transmitted from human to human. “Year after year, Soper reported to the Pan American Health Organization Directing Council on the status of smallpox eradication in the Americas…[he] increasingly…

weapons and literacy over the new world. Old World Diseases such as Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Influenza and Measles, as well as potentially Tuberculosis, Syphilis, Malaria and Gonorrhea, spread throughout the Americas with a deadly…