MICR 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Columbus Crew Sc, Edward Jenner, Gonorrhea

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Microbiology and Immunology
• Course: MICR 221
• Professor: Eric B Carstens

Document Summary

Ppl were looking at filers, but chamberlain and pasteur were able to find unglazed porcelain filter and the substance would now be bacterial free. Used for long time, filters we know today were not developed till 1950s and 1960s to free jet rocket fuel from contamination. Ppl discovered viruses after filer => tobacomozaic virus. Took infected tobacco plant leaves with tobacco disease, put through filter so filtrate be bac free, inject helathy plant and get disease. First animal disease caused by virus (foot and mouth) 20th cent 20 mill- 500 mill died from smallpox if survived, had horrible scars. Ramsey the 5th had smallpox (egyptian found in 1898) Only infectious disease that have been eradicated in 1977 from face of earth. Tra(cid:448)elled (cid:271)(cid:455) colo(cid:373)(cid:271)us" (cid:272)re(cid:449) to (cid:374)ati(cid:448)es a(cid:374)d po(cid:272)aha(cid:374)tas. Jenner, in his time had disease called grease, cows had cow-pox. Milk maids would get blisters on their hand. Jenner noticed that ppl who had cow blisters did not get smallpox.