Edward Jenner, innovator of the the smallpox
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was born
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in 1749. Having laid the foundations for contemporary discoveries in immunology and through coordinated public health efforts, smallpox was declared eradicated by
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in 1979.
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Let’s not forget the important role of Lady Mary Wortley Montague who introduced the practice of inoculation against smallpox (variolation) to Western medicine after witnessing it during her stay in the Ottoman Empire in the early 1700s.
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🥳 Amongst eating lots of cake we’ve also posted this thread for Jenner’s birthday, would you mind sharing please?
“No human being who has ever lived has saved more lives in history than the simple country doctor from Gloucestershire.” (
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in 1749 Edward Jenner, the pioneer of vaccination, was born in Berkeley. (1/4)
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