The Development of the First Modern Vaccine
In short: Explore how Edward Jenner's observation of cowpox led to the first modern vaccine and the eventual eradication of smallpox.
A 1:42 short film in the series “Medicine Breakthroughs”.
Sources used in this film: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “‘Defying providence’: a salutary new look at the history of smallpox”; Nature, “The smallpox ghost in Voltaire’s life: inoculation and the origins of vaccine acceptance - npj Vaccines”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London”.
Sources used in this film
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) — ‘Defying providence’: a salutary new look at the history of smallpox · View →
- Nature — The smallpox ghost in Voltaire’s life: inoculation and the origins of vaccine acceptance - npj Vaccines · View →
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) — The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): ‘Defying providence’: a salutary new look at the history of smallpox
- Also: Nature: The smallpox ghost in Voltaire’s life: inoculation and the origins of vaccine acceptance - npj Vaccines
- Also: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London
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