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How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus

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10000 years ago a deadly virus a rose in northeastern Africa the virus spread through the air attacking the bone marrow and lymph nodes fever vomiting and rashes 30% of infected people died during second week of infection Survivor stars and scab for the rest of their life smallpox had arrived in 1350 BC the first smallpox epidemic hit during the hittite wore Egyptian prisoners red ball talk to the hittite we killed their King and devastated his civilization insidiously smallpox made its way around the world by Egyptian Merchants then through the Arab world with the Crusade and all the way to the Americas with the Spanish and Portuguese temp and it killed billions of people with an estimated 300 to 500 million people killed in the 20th century alone but smallpox is not unbeatable in fact the fall of ballpark started long before modern medicine began all the way back in 10:22 ad according to a small book called the correct treatment of smallpox a Buddhist nun living in a famous mountain named omake on Southern province of pecan wood grind up small pie gab and blow the powder into nostrils of healthy people this after noticing that those who managed to survive smallpox never got it again and her odd treatment worked the procedure called variolation you bought by the 1700 doctors were taking material from stores and putting them into healthy people through four or five scratches on the our this works pretty well as inoculating people would not get reinfected but it wasn't full up to 3% of people would still die after being exposed to the pot it wasn't until English position Edward Jenner noticed something interesting about dairymaids that we got our modern solution at 8:13 while Jenner with a printer to a country surgeon and Apothecary in Sudbury rectal the dairymaids say I can never have small talk for I have had cowpox I can never have an ugly pockmarked face cowpox is a skin disease that resembles smallpox and infect we are on at the position he realized you would write women who got cowpox didn't develop the deadly smallpox smallpox and cowpox viruses are from the same family but when a virus infects an unfamiliar host in this case cowpox inspecting human detect whether the cowpox virus could be used to protect against smallpox in 1796 Jenner found a young Dairy Maid there on Elm who had fresh cow pox lesions on her hand caught from the utters of a cow named blossom using matter from Perpetual he inoculated James dip the eight year old son of his Gardner after a few days of fever and discomfort the boys theme to recover two months later dinner and activated the boy again this time with matter from a fracture smallpox lesion no disease developed and dinner concluded that protection would complete his plan at work generator use the cowpox virus in several other people and towns them smallpox proving that they were immune disease with this procedure Jenner invented the smallpox vaccination unlike variolation with you tactical smallpox virus to try to protect people vaccination use the far left dangerous to the medical establishment add now deliberated Apple length over his findings before accepting them but eventually vaccination was gradually accepted and variolation became prohibited in England in 1840 after large vaccination campaign throughout the 19th and 20th Century the World Health Organization 35 small boxes eradication in 1979 Jenner is forever remembered as the father of Immunology but let's not forget the Dairy Maid Sarah noun from the cow and James dip all heroes in great adventure of vaccination who helped eradicate smallpox

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