Smallpox

Some of the obstacles of surrounding vaccination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) made eradication of smallpox in the country seem unlikely. These obstacles included a lack of infrastructure/travel, an uncooperative government, and an inability to conduct active surveillance on the amount of individuals vaccinate as well as an issue with detecting cases of smallpox. Many of these issues are akin to those faced by the effort to keep the DRC free of polio.1 In 2017 two confirmed cases…

about the context of Smallpox. The source reflects a commentary on Galen’s influence and offers summaries composed in a book of additional input to the material discussed. Also, it appears that the source could have easily been encompassed in a medical encyclopedia. Likewise, the source resembles a treatise in a book. The primary source has two main purposes: to portray the causes of Smallpox and the method of spreading Smallpox. Some factors that contributed to the spread of Smallpox are…

The exposure that the Spanish had to animals not only benefited them with work and a sustainable source of food, but they also developed immunity to a deadly disease known as smallpox. The Spaniard’s exposure to the smallpox disease, which was due to the proximity their society had to domesticated animals, allowed them to unknowingly use that disease to decimate the entire Incan society. When the exposure of the two societies are compared, the Incas had almost no exposure to domesticated animals…

The History of Smallpox Smallpox once covered the globe. In Europe alone, 400,000 people a year use to die from it. It used to be extremely infectious. Smallpox started with little brown dots on your skin called macules. After a while each little dot raised up into a bump called a papule. Three or four days later, each papule became a blister called a pustule, a hard round bead under the skin. The patient’s whole body was covered in these, but especially his face, hands and feet. Sometimes…

Chapter 3 Article 3: Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation s Fight against Smallpox, 1518-1824 Chapter two of the textbook, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Containing and Preventing Biological Threats, by Jeffrey R. Ryan, goes into extensive detail on the numerous types of category A diseases and their agents. Category A diseases and agents, hold the greatest potential for harm in the case of a bioterrorist attack (Ryan 2016, p. 51). Throughout this chapter the different types…

“Smallpox is believed to have arrived in the Americas in 1520 on a Spanish ship sailing from Cuba, carried by an infected African slave” (Diamond). Smallpox was spread from the Europeans over to the native populations of the New World. The disease was transmitted by coughing, sneezing, and also by tactile infection. The Europeans, however, had built up immunity against Smallpox. The Europeans lived in close contact with their livestock and…

minimal or no death rates. On this basis, an English physician named Edward Jenner (1748–1823) searched for a cure for smallpox, a devastating disease that rendered the world helpless. Jenner became interested in certain individuals who were immune to smallpox because they had contracted cowpox in the past. He personally witnessed this when he noticed that a dairymaid was immune to smallpox…

stopped giving vaccinating the general population against smallpox because the disease happened to no longer be a threat. Polio is another example of a virus or disease that happened to spread. While polio is a distant memory in most of the world, the disease still exists in some places and mainly affects children…

(Dr. Jenner's House, n.d.) In order to develop the vaccine for smallpox, Edward’s plan was to extract the cowpox virus and inject it directly into a subject to create immunity. “He came across a milkmaid, Sarah Nelmes, who had developed cowpox from milking a cow”. (Mhaske, 2010) Without pausing Edward collected the…

After research, some parents feel that it is UNSAFE for their child to be vaccinated - why? Some parents feel vaccinations will become over whelming to the child’s immune system. Parents think it’s safer for the child immune system if the child isn’t vaccinated. Other suggested opinions from parents are to only allow vaccinations they feel are important. The fear of what is inside the vaccinations; keep parent from vaccinating their children. Such things like mercury, aluminum, and antifreeze.…