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Smallpox vaccine
The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine to be developed. The process of vaccination was first publicised by Edward Jenner in 1796, his observation that milkmaids who caught the cowpox virus did not catch smallpox. -
pasteurisation
pasteurisation is a process of heating a food, which is usually a liquid, to a specific temperature for length of time and then immediately cooling it after it is removed from the heat. It aims to reduce the number of viable pathogens so they are unlikely to cause disease. -
Foot and mouth outbreak
The first case of the disease to be detected was at Cheale Meats abattoir in Little Warley, Essex on 19 February 2001 on pigs from Buckinghamshire and the Isle of Wight. Over the next four days, several more cases were announced in Essex. On 23 February a case was confirmed in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland. Over 10 million sheep and cattle were killed inorder to try and halt the disease. Cumbria was the worst effected with 843 cases. -
penicillin
The discovery of penicillin iwas discovered by a Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming in 1928. penicillin is a form of fungi which is used to treat diseaeses and illnesses. -
Biological warefare
In 184 BC, Hannibal of Carthage had clay pots filled with venomous snakes and instructed his soldiers to throw the pots onto the decks of Pergamene ships.
