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~ The ancient Egyptians used Lizard blood, dead mice and moldy bread.
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The Romans created new sanitation systems, such as sewers and aqueducts. It was inspired by the Greeks.
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~described mumps, diphtheria, epidemic jaundice, and other conditions he became known as the founder of medicine
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~scabs from smallpox patients were placed in cuts of healthy people to prevent them from getting the disease, therefore them being able to heal and be immune to smallpox.
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~started in Asia then spread to Europe, disease caused by bacteria,
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~suggested that epidemics may come from pathogens outside the body
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blood circulation. He figured out that blood flows in two different systems/loops- the systemic circulation and the pulmonary circulation.
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~successfully uses cowpox material to create immunity against small pox with one of the first vaccines.(vaccine for smallpox)
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~created the first live attenuated bacterial vaccine (chicken cholera).Highly contagious and lethal disease that occurred in epidemics in poultry yards
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~used in humans to fight off rabies
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The first effective typhoid vaccine was developed by Almwroth Edward Wright. It was used mainly for the military at the time
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Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine developed a vaccine against cholera. He is known as the first person to develop a prophylactic (someone to prevent or protect against something) vaccine for humans.
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The idea of creating a plague vaccine was started from Alexander Yersin. (Plague is a disease that is transmitted by fleas and now is very rare to occur because of the immunity against it with the vaccines and the better sanitary conditions now.)
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~following the development of an effective therapeutic serum against tetanus by Emil Von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato.
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~The vaccine was made by bacteriologist Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin.
~Caused by bacteria in the lungs. It's spread by person to person through the air.
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~ A viral infection that occurs in Africa and South America. The vaccine was developed by Max Theiler who was a South African microbiologist.
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~Jonas Salk created the vaccine when the US did not approve of it. Polio is a disease that causes paralysis of the body.
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Maurice Hilleman created the first measles and mumps vaccine. Measles is a viral infection that mainly affects children. Mumps is also a viral infection that affects the salivary glands.
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~After proving safe in monkeys and humans, John Enders declared the vaccine capable of preventing the disease
