History of vaccines

Question 1

What is small pox

Answer 1

Contagious, disfiguring and deadly disease that has affected humans for thousands of years

Begins with high fever, headache, back pain followed by eruptions on skin that leaves the face and limbs covered with cratered pockmarks (pox)

20-60% mortality rate, 80% in kids

Was responsible for a third of all blindness

Question 2

Inoculation or Variolation

Answer 2

one way the Ancient Chinese may have practiced inoculation by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into a healthy person’s arm

Question 3

Pioneer of Modern Vaccination

Answer 3

Edward Jenner

Question 4

How did the first vaccine come to be?

Answer 4

He invented the first (smallpox) vaccine by taking infected cowpox matter and injecting it into a boy’s arm