1. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23

   …ry, drawn from the folklore of the countryside, that milkmaids who suffered the mild disease of cowpox never contracted smallpox, one of the greatest killers of the period, particularly amongst children. A farmer named Jesty from Yetminster in 17…
   …by infecting them with cowpox. Jenner subsequently proved that having been inoculated with cowpox Phipps was immune to smallpox. He submitted a paper to the **Royal Society** in 1797 describing his experiment but was told that his ideas were too r…
   …ollecting and horticulture. He died on 26 January 1823. == Infant Killer == In the eighteenth century, before Jenner, smallpox was a killer disease, as widespread as cancer or heart disease in the twentieth century but with the difference that th…
   …sult of Jenner's discovery, the World Health Assembly officially declared "the world and its peoples" free from endemic smallpox**. In 1977 Ali Maow Maalim, a hospital worker was the last person on Earth to catch smallpox. It is estimated that Je…

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