Edward Jenner + Vaccination

Question 1

What was the deathrate of smallpox (%)

Answer 1

30%

Question 2

When was smallpox declared as eradicated?

Answer 2

1979

Question 3

What disease was used to make the person immune?
Why did he think this disease would make the person immune?

Answer 3

Cowpox
He thought this would make the person immune because the milkmaids never contracted smallpox and they only contracted cowpox.

Question 4

Who did Jenner perform the test on? When? How did it work?

Answer 4

James Phipps
May 1796
Deliberately give person cowpox, wait, give smallpox

Question 5

When was Jenner’s vaccine made compulsory?

Answer 5

1853

Question 6

How did people react to Jenner’s vaccine?
(Fear of both ____ and smallpox)

Answer 6

People feared the new vaccination since people believed if you took the vaccine you would turn into a cow
However, people were still so scared of smallpox that they took it anyway since crowds queued to be vaccinated