epidemical heights. The two scourges are bubonic plague‚ which influenced Europe during the 1300’s‚ and smallpox‚ which impacted Mesoamerica and the Native Americans from the 1500’s to the 1900’s. To understand how these sicknesses were so altering to their related societies‚ one must understand the disease. First‚ one must know the background of the disease. The earliest known outbreak of smallpox originated in Asia‚ more specifically in India (Carr para. 2). Bubonic plague is also presumed to have
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Smallpox was a disease that plagued humankind for centuries‚ but it was also the only disease to be completely eradicated by vaccination. Edward Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccination offered protection against the illness where no illness would develop. For the few that did survive smallpox‚ it was known that they became immune to the disease. Considering this‚ Jenner’s beginnings in the village of Gloucestershire led to him opening a practice as a village surgeon. While he was in his practice
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African and Turkish first started using inoculated technique. Edward Jenner‚ an English physician and scientist‚ created the first smallpox vaccine using a similar disease‚ cowpox‚ which infects cows‚ and is credited for being the influence for the practice of vaccination in the present. For over 200 years Jenner’s innovation was used and updated; as a result‚ the smallpox disease was eradicated. In 1855 Massachusetts passed the first US law requiring school children to receive vaccinations‚ and by
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Smallpox Smallpox was a disease that was caused by a virus. The virus spread when an uninfected person came in direct contact with a sick person and breathed in the virus. Usually‚ the virus was in tiny drops that were coughed up by the sick person. After about two weeks the infected person would develop a high fever and muscle aches and pains. After about three days of fever the person would break out in a rash all over his or her body. At first it looked like red spots‚ but these spots gradually
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Biological Warfare: Could Smallpox Become the Next Biological Weapon? Desmond J. Falls American Military University Abstract This Paper is a study on biological weapons. It will touch on how and why they are manufactured. There is an emphasis on smallpox and whether it could be used as a weapon of mass destruction by terrorist in the near future. A brief history on smallpox and how it was previously used as a biological weapon will be detailed‚ along with facts from the World Health Organization
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The first time Edward Jenner heard about smallpox was when he was a young practitioner. He heard a woman that said she was not going to get smallpox because she already had cowpox. At that time it did not make sense‚ but later on did. After he became a physician‚ he founded that smallpox and cowpox were similar because they were diseases derivatives from the same “family.” Time passed and in one of his consultations‚ he went out on the field and during this transition Mr. Jenner observed that some
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Rubric for Lesson 12 Project on Smallpox Question 1: (Describe the symptoms of smallpox. How would you recognize if a person is suffering from smallpox? Write three or more paragraphs for your answer.) Paragraph 1: (35/35) A description is given for the symptoms of small pox. Paragraph 2: (15/15) What side effects are left behind after the person has recovered from small pox? (15/15) Explain what tests could be given to see if a person is a carrier but not infected. (15/15) The treatments for small
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Ethical Issues That Arise In Jenner’s Vaccination Against Smallpox In Edward Jenner’s Vaccination Against Smallpox‚ the way Jenner experiments on the people in his village questions whether or not his actions were ethical. Jenner’s work on the people in his community addresses many health risks due to the smallpox disease‚ his work may have had both purpose and justification‚ but the way Jenner carried out his experiments were very dangerous and harmful to his community. Jenner put many people’s
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Smallpox is a highly infectious disease caused by the variola virus‚ an orthopoxvirus. Humans are the only known reservoir of this virus‚ thus no known animal or insect reservoirs have been identified. As routine vaccination is no longer undertaken‚ exposure to variola virus has the potential to cause high rates of morbidity and mortality in human population. Following an incubation period‚ infected individuals manifest with prodromal symptoms that include high fever‚ malaise‚ back pain and prostration
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The Jenner Trial "The smallpox was always present‚ filling the churchyards with corpses‚ tormenting with constant fears all whom it had stricken‚ leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power‚ turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered‚ and making the eyes and cheeks of the bighearted maiden objects of horror to the lover" (Macaulay). Imagine walking down the busiest street in 1700s London‚ and you only saw a dozen people. In every window‚ bodies
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