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In December 2019 the World Health Organization commemorated the 40th anniversary of smallpox eradication. Smallpox had plagued humanity for at least 3000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone. The last known endemic case of smallpox was reported and the outbreak promptly contained in Somalia in 1977. The smallpox eradication programme led […]
Edward Jenner (Smallpox Vaccination) The image above features Edward Jenner, who pioneered vaccination, and two colleagues (right) seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, with the dead lying at their feet (1808). In 1796, he carried out his now famous experiment on eight-year-old James Phipps. Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule and inserted it into […]
“The Smallpox vaccine, introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796, was the first successful vaccine to be developed. He observed that milkmaids who previously had caught cowpox did not catch Smallpox and showed that inoculated vaccinia protected against inoculated variola virus.” https://www.who.int/csr/disease/smallpox/vaccines/en/ Smallpox was fatal in up to 30% of cases. Smallpox has existed for at least 3,000 years and was one of […]
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