History

Question 1

What is variolation?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What did Edward Jenner do?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is herd immunity

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

What did Louis Pasteur develop and who helped him?

Answer 4

Attenuated Vaccines + Roux

Question 5

To what bacteria did Louis Pasteur extend bacterial attenuation?

Answer 5

1. Cholera
2. Anthrax
3. Rabies
   
   • save Joseph Meister

Question 6

What did Pasteur also change (4)?

Answer 6

Question 7

Who is Robert Koch

Answer 7

Question 8

Who is Emil Adolf von Behring?

Answer 8

Question 9

Who is Paul Ehrlich?

Answer 9

Question 10

What did Lady Mary Worley Montagu do?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Who is Elie Metchnikoff?

Answer 11

Question 12

Who is Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Answer 12

Question 13

Who is Niels K Jerne

Answer 13