Edward Jenner: The Man Who Invented Vaccines

Edward Jenner: The Man Who Cured Smallpox etches out a stunning biographical portrait of Jenner, a 19th-century English rural doctor who made history and saved untold millions (much as Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin eventually did with polio) by concocting a vaccine for the viral illness known as smallpox, or Variola vera.
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[@PetraKann]

…..the practice of immunisation was recorded in 17thcentury China, where Buddhist monks drank snake venom to create immunity to snake bites. The concept of variolation (deliberate infection) occurs even earlier in history, with smallpox survivors in 430 BC being called upon to nurse the afflicted.

[@anantbhushangaur1972]

It was also recorded in ancient India. Vaccination was called teekakaran. Even today it is called that in some parts of India. From ancient India, this practices reached china just like Buddhism itself.

[@PetraKann]

Small pox survivors being called upon to burse the afflicted is common sense is it not?

[@iq-ride9329]

Fifty yes before Jenner, the wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman State reported about Ottoman children in Istanbul being immunized against smallpox.

[@savakiranbaan8546]

The world will never Forget him❤.

[@murrieteacher]

And still after al the history of vaccination we still had problems with COVID 19. Sigh, in spite of ourselves, man still succeeded.

[@MarkBalucan-g3z]

THANK YOU