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Edward Jenner - Vaccine Inventor

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He became famous for introducing the first smallpox vaccine. He used the cowpox virus as a vaccine.

How did it all start?

Even as a child, he had heard about the fact that cow milkers who commonly contracted cowpox never contracted smallpox. He later deduced from this that cowpox confers immunity against smallpox. Therefore, on May 14, 1796, he took pus from the blisters of a cow milker and deliberately inoculated it into an eight-year-old boy. After six weeks, when he was successfully cured, Jenner gave him the smallpox virus, but the boy did not get sick. 
This attempt is considered the first real vaccination. 

"I don't know if I made a mistake and created something terrible" - Edward Jenner

Jenner then used this method many more times, calling his method vaccination (from the Latin word vacca, English cow). His method quickly spread throughout Europe. 
Thanks to vaccination, smallpox was declared completely eradicated by the World Health Organization on May 8, 1980.

My Idea is trying to capture appearance of room from his house ''The Chantry'' located in Berkeley, Great Britain. Nowadays you can visit a museum in his house.


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