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Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner is known as the father of immunology due to developing the world's first vaccine for smallpox using cowpox. He observed that exposure to cowpox protected women from smallpox and used this method to develop the smallpox vaccine. His work replaced the riskier practice of variolation and established vaccination as a safer method for preventing disease.

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Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner is known as the father of immunology due to developing the world's first vaccine for smallpox using cowpox. He observed that exposure to cowpox protected women from smallpox and used this method to develop the smallpox vaccine. His work replaced the riskier practice of variolation and established vaccination as a safer method for preventing disease.

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Edward Jenner: Someone Who Made a Di erence

1 Edward Jenner is known as father of immunology due to his

contribution to vaccination. 2 He has made a huge di erence in the

eld in two ways. 3 One of the ways in which he developed the small

pox vaccination was by using cowpox in inoculation, which is the

process of getting vaccinated. 4 He observed that young women who

were exposed to cowpox didn t catch smallpox, so he used the cowpox

virus to prevent people from catching smallpox. 5 Later, he named

inoculation vaccination , and that came from the word cow in latin. 6

The other way was through replacing variolation with vaccination. 7


Variolation is taking material from sores and putting them into healthy

people, but up to 3% of variolated people still died after being exposed

to the virus. 8 Therefore, variolation wasn t the best way to be immune,

which was later proved when they prohibited it. 9 Jenner used

inoculation which provided full immunity to the disease. 10 Edward

Jenner work on vaccination saved more lives than the work of any
other scientist.
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