History Flashcards

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What is variolation?

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A method utilized by the Chinese and Turks to induce immunity by inhaling dried crusts from smallpox pus or inserting them into small cuts.

Also used in sub-Saharan Africa, brought to America by slavery

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What did Edward Jenner do?

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On May 14, 1796 he used cowpox to induce smallpox immunity

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What is herd immunity

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A buffing capability that confer immunity to unimmunized due to a critical mass of individual who are immunized .

Herd immunity protects those who have weakened immune systems or cannot be vaccinated.

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What did Louis Pasteur develop and who helped him?

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Attenuated Vaccines + Roux

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To what bacteria did Louis Pasteur extend bacterial attenuation?

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  1. Cholera
  2. Anthrax
  3. Rabies
    • save Joseph Meister
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What did Pasteur also change (4)?

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Who is Robert Koch

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Who is Emil Adolf von Behring?

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Who is Paul Ehrlich?

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What did Lady Mary Worley Montagu do?

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She helped introduce vaccination against smallpox in 1715 to Britain and Western Europe

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Who is Elie Metchnikoff?

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Who is Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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Who is Niels K Jerne

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