PUBHLTH 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Insecticide, Storm Drain, Wttf
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Louis pasteur unmask real cause of human illness, illness cause by tiny germs, by living organisms we cannot see them. He works using microscope viewing bacteria, looking at tiny little cells in infectious chicken. Physician named edward jenner (the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world"s first vaccine) study the disease (cid:272)alled s(cid:373)allpo(cid:454), je(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:396) (cid:374)oti(cid:272)ed that the (cid:373)aids (cid:449)o(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith (cid:272)o(cid:449)s did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e s(cid:373)allpo(cid:454), predicting that catching smallpox making one immune to smallpox. Jenner inject scrape of smallpox into a little boy, james, and expose him to smallpox victim (questionable ethic)! James survive, infection with (cid:272)o(cid:449)po(cid:454) has gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) hi(cid:373) i(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455) he i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)ted the (cid:448)a(cid:272)(cid:272)i(cid:374)e! Je(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:396) a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t e(cid:448)e(cid:374) k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)h(cid:455) it works! Louis pasteur knew cowpox was a weaker than smallpox, thinks that it should work for other germs as well. He uses spinal cord of infectious rabbit to create a mild form of rabies.
