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Period: Nov 18, 1300 to
Timeline Of Infectious Disease
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Nov 18, 1340
Bubonic Plague sweeps around europe
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Nov 18, 1546
Germ Theory of diseasae
proposed by Girolamo Fracastoro -
First Vaccine is created
Edward Jenner creates a vaccine by inoculating a child with a little bit of cow pox. The child was then exposed to the real smallpox and and the child survived the sickness which was very rare. -
London Cholera Epidemic
John Snow found that people were getting cholera from the infected watering holes. So he combated this becoming one of the first people to find the cause of a disease -
Robert Koch
Releases his 4 requirements to indentify the cause of a disease. Would become known and the Koch-Henle Postulate and is still used today -
Flu Vaccine Created
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Oral Polio Vaccine created
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Last Case Of Smallpox Ever
This was the day that the last case of Smallpox was diagnosed. A vaccine erradicated the disease with the help of the disease warriors.
