HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cowpox, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur
16 Jun 2016
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For the large part, it"s the science and art of prolonging life. Creating healthy spaces for ppl to live in prevention and. Two drops of vitamin a can save your life. Polio virus; largest public health project today: infectious virus causes nerve damage and paralysis, infection spreads from unhygienic locations, nigeria is the largest pool of this disease. Edward jenner and small pox disease; related to having cow pox allowed immunity to small pox vaccine. 1864, louis pasteur tests vaccinations; experimented with rabies. Learned in 20th century how vaccinations work weaker versions of disease help immune system to create antibodies that allows them to fight the whole disease in the future. 1967 world health organization tried total eradication of small pox: emergence of small pox warriors to go to the remote regions to spread vaccine, used ring vaccination method to overcome the large, scattered population barrier.
