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Liquid From The Blisters Jenner Repeated Smallpox
821 wordsSmallpox has been one of the most dangerous and deadly curses ever placed on humankind. Even illnesses as terrible as the plague, cholera, and yellow fever have not had such a universal effect. Smallpox is a parasitic virus (a virus destructive to the host) called variola. Its considered to be a crowd disease, spreading only through people and requiring a large densely populated area to survive. If the virus is cut off from new host bodies it dies out. Smallpox is spread by what is called drople...
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Biological Warfare Soviet Union
484 wordsWhy has the threat of smallpox recently come up in the media? With the occurrences of anthrax in the United States the subject of biological warfare has been ignited. Adding to the threat of smallpox, secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Tompson proposed a contract to congress that would equip the defense department with three million vaccines to the smallpox virus. In this contract four large pharmaceutical companies would receive 500 million dollars to have these vaccines prepared befo...
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18 Th Century Edward Jenner
401 wordsDid Jenner Really Make A Breakthrough In Did Jenner Really Make A Breakthrough In The Fight Against Disease? In the 18 th century, medical knowledge was still quite basic with very few advances since the middle-ages. The biggest advances had come from Versailles, Pare and Harvey, but these advances were just in knowledge of the human body, not in the treatment of disease. The main treatments of disease were based on the four humours still and the most common was bleeding. Smallpox was a huge pro...
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Bubonic Plague Edward Jenner
696 wordsDisease And Vaccinations In The Industrial Revolution Disease And Vaccinations In The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the advent of gross urbanization of factory towns and cities. Due to advancements in areas such as textiles and machinery, many people flocked from the countrysides of Europe (particularly Britain) to cities where they sought work was factory operators and machinists. To accommodate the tremendous influx of people, ch...
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Spread Of Disease Infectious Diseases
2,446 wordsIt is often said that in the centuries after Columbus landed in the New World on 12 October, 1492, more native North Americans died each year from infectious diseases brought by the European settlers than were born. (6) The decimation of people indigenous to the Americas by diseases introduced by European invaders is unprecedented. While it is difficult to accurately determine the population of the pre-Columbian Americas, scholars estimate the number to have been between 40 and 50 million people...
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