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Download Solution PDFWho among the following developed the smallpox vaccine?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Edward Jenner
Key Points
- Smallpox is was one of the deadliest diseases known to humans and to date (2016) the only human disease to have been eradicated by vaccination.
- The smallpox vaccine, introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796, was the first successful vaccine to be developed.
- The history of smallpox holds a unique place in medicine.
- The smallpox vaccine, introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796, was the first successful vaccine to be developed.
- He observed that milkmaids who previously had caught cowpox did not catch smallpox and showed that inoculated vaccinia protected against inoculated variola virus.
Additional Information
- Scientists and discovery:
- Alexander Fleming: Penicillin.
- Albert Einstein: Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
- Louis Pasteur: Pasteurization.
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