Smallpox

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…

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…

vaccine to be able go to school or just for your health . eventually your mom or dad resarch and eventually would find many Edward Jenner was a doctor from england .Which he lived during the years of smallpox in Europe . In those days there was a wide spread of the smallpox . Smallpox comes from Cowpox . So his thinking was if the milkmaids who got a mild case of cowpox…

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history of smallpox vaccination. It was known that English milkmaids would often develop cowpox from milking infected cows. Cowpox is a minor infection in cows that is very similar to smallpox, but not near as deadly. It was known that after milkmaids recovered from the cowpox, they were immune to smallpox. With this knowledge in mind, Dr. Jenner conducted an experiment on an eight-year-old boy named James Phipps. He injected cowpox pus into the boy’s arm, and then exposed him to human smallpox.…

The first immunization was possibly invented in ancient times but was first recorded in the late 1800s. A little less than two hundred years later, vaccines were standardized when it came to administering it to children and infants. These vaccines offer many benefits to the child and their parent. However, not every parent wishes to have their children vaccinated out of fear that it will do more harm than good. Overall, Vaccines have had an interesting history. Since their invention, they have…

million children from preventable diseases every year [44], which equates to roughly 285 children saved every hour.” This explains how vaccines can do more than the immune system can. With only the immune system deadly diseases such as polio and smallpox could kill the child. More importantly “USA Today” notify us that, “Vaccines given to infants and young children over the past two decades will prevent 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations, and 732,000 deaths over the course of…

Vaccinations Should be Mandatory There has been a continuous debate about whether or not parents should take part in vaccinating their children. Many parents worry about the unknowns of vaccinations. This could be what is in the vaccine, when the vaccine is given to the child, and how their child will react to a vaccine, or they could have religious beliefs that go against vaccines. Today, there is a routine immunization schedule for babies and young children that was created by the CDC which…

diseases, accompanied by a high mortality rate despite the best efforts of doctors. These include smallpox, cholera, typhoid fever, plague, and others (The history of vaccination). The doctors began to think about how to prevent epidemics kill millions of people in the middle Ages. A wound discharge was used already in the XII century for the prevention of smallpox in China from cows that were ill with smallpox (cowpox non-communicable to humans). Edward Jenner planted to the human a cowpox,…

In my opinion, vaccination is a very significant contribution in the medical field in which it was a vital role on combating smallpox. No doubt citizens should be have been vaccinated, however the introduction of vaccination policies came in a questionable time in which there was no epidemics of smallpox, which would had made it easier for public approval when its effects were shown. The ignorance of these groups who have misplaced their priorities in which a greater…