“Vaccines are the most cost-effective healthcare interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life‚ but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare” (Ezekiel Emanuel). Immunizations have revolutionized the world of science ever since they were first discovered. They now are fundamental to people’s survival. The first hope to a vaccine was created by Edward Jenner in 1796. Edward Jenner was the first to give a chance to those living with viral infectious
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Vaccines have long been used to to fight disease and protect people. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a vaccine as a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease‚ protecting the person from that disease. They can be administered through injections‚ but can also be administered through the mouth or sprayed into the nose.The first vaccine was invented in the year 1000 and was used to treat smallpox‚ a chinese man crushed up smallpox scabs
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African and Turkish first started using inoculated technique. Edward Jenner‚ an English physician and scientist‚ created the first smallpox vaccine using a similar disease‚ cowpox‚ which infects cows‚ and is credited for being the influence for the practice of vaccination in the present. For over 200 years Jenner’s innovation was used and updated; as a result‚ the smallpox disease was eradicated. In 1855 Massachusetts passed the first US law requiring school children to receive vaccinations‚ and by
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Smallpox Smallpox is a contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It starts off as a fever‚ and then progresses into a skin rash. By 1980‚ the disease was declared eradicated because of worldwide vaccination services. As a result of the 9/11 terrorists attack‚ the United States is very cautious of this disease as its potential use of a terrorist weapon. The United States has made a nationwide emergency plan if there were to be an outbreak of smallpox. Smallpox can be spread airborne by an
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SmallPox Smallpox is a disease caused by a poxvirus that is transmitted from person to person that causes high fever‚ characteristic rash‚ and may kill about one-third of those infected. Smallpox is the only disease that has been completely wiped out throughout the world. Smallpox is also potentially one of the most devastating biological weapons ever conceived. Smallpox usually requires fairly prolonged face-to-face contact to spread. It’s most often transmitted through the air by droplets
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Smallpox‚ like any other disease was very deadly. It mainly affected young adults and children. During the 1300s – 1650s‚ smallpox unfortunately came with social‚ political and economic consequences. Socially‚ the illness led to immense population declines. Politically‚ the ailment led to decreases in armed forces. Economically‚ smallpox led to a shortage of labors. Smallpox killed more people than any other sickness in world history.
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The smallpox virus was once one of the most feared diseases in the world‚ and for good reason. Variola was a contagious virus that caused fever and painful‚ pus filled blisters all over the body. Victims had about a one fourth chance of survival‚ and survivors were covered with small‚ pitted scars and sometimes blinded or arthritic. Popping sporadically up in various civilizations‚ smallpox left a trail of destruction through two thousand plus years of mankind’s history. The story of smallpox is
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Smallpox Epidemics Lexi Gagne April 17‚ 2013 Dr. Stinson The smallpox disease was a significant life threatening disease that lasted for centuries. Changing the world countries at a time‚ smallpox is one of the top deadliest diseases known to man. It is estimated that it began when humans started gathering in communities and traveling around six thousand years ago (Geddes 152). Until around 30 years ago‚ people were still living in fear of this awful disease (Geddes 157). Knowledge
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Biology Research History of Smallpox and Scientific Methods of Dr. Edward Jennings Name: Wael Aboul Hosn Date: Tuesday‚ October 4‚ 2010 Grade : 10 ADP SMALLPOX: THE ORIGIN OF A DISEASE: The origin of smallpox as a natural disease is lost in prehistory. It is believed to have appeared around 10‚000 BC‚ at the time of the first agricultural settlements in northeastern Africa. It seems credible that it spread from there to India by means of ancient Egyptian merchants. The earliest
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impact of smallpox on economics‚ medicine and people in England? Planning: Paragraph 1- Thesis and Introduction What is smallpox? What its biggest impacts? The fall of smallpox. Paragraph 2-4- Points‚ Evidence‚ Explanation Economics Medicine Human Paragraph 5- Conclusion (sum up what I have already said) How big the smallpox was? Smallpox is a serious and contagious disease due to a virus that got thousand millions people killed. It is believed that smallpox have originated
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