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Depicted on a ancient chinese diagram was a early form of innoculation for smallpox in which scabs from an infected individual would be scraped off of ground up and placed on a healthy person.
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Edward Jenner was born on this day.
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Jenners Life
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Jenner tested his hypothesis that cowpox and smallpox were a related disease, that if someone were infected by cowpox they would grow an immunity to smallpox.
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Edward Jenner now a doctor heard tale of a milk maid who belived that she had become immune to small pox due to her exposure to Cow pox a common disease that is transmitted through pustules on the cows themselves.
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Louis Pasteur was born in france.
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Jenners life is ended by a stroke.
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After failing to produce a viable vaccine for rabies in monkeys Pasture turned to rabbits. Taking the tissue from the spinal column and drying it to weaken the virus enough to a form a viable vaccine.
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Through his studies in fermentation Pasture discovered if there is a absence of microorganisms things will not ferment or rot.
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During the midst of an epidemic that is killing livestock Pasteur suggested that microrganisms had a role to play with the sickness of the animals. Many of his colleagues rejected the idea of that and only a handful adopted his idea.
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Louis Pasteur created the first laboratory vaccine for Chicken Colora.
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Pasture announced to the French Academy of Science that his vaccine had protected a dog from the deadly rabies virus.
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Pasture presented the results of his new rabies vaccine on humans. Out of 350 people only one died to the disease most likely due to the fact that the treatment was started too late.
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Maurice Hilleman is born.
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Hillman working at E.R Squibb and sons developed a vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis to protect American troops during the pacific theater of operations of WWII.
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At the University of Pittsberg Jonas salk developed a method of cultivating the Polio Virus in monkey kidneys, leading to the development of a viable vaccine for Polio.
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The vaccine was responsible for the deaths of 11 and the hundreds that were paralyzed. Though the cause of the disaster was never proven, it is likely that certain production methods (which, it turns out, did not follow Salk’s instructions) resulted in a failure to completely kill the Type 1 (Mahoney) poliovirus in the vaccine.
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In 1960 Albert Sabins live poliovirus vaccine was reccomended by the Surgion general to be licensed because it protected agains poliovirus 1 and later 2 and 3
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On August 20, 1994, the Pan American Health Organization had reported that three years had passed since the last polio report.
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