Re: Vaccination Record in 1826

Posted by Futse on
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Hello Claire,
Allan is right.
Kuh = cow
Blattern = old German word for pox
Cowpox (also known as sheep pox) is a mild pox-like disease that mainly affects cattle. Humans can also contract cowpox. Infection usually occurs during milking and is limited to the hands (milker's nodes).

The English physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was the first to recognize that people who contracted cowpox were subsequently not only immune to cowpox but also immune to smallpox. He coined the term vaccination (lat. vacca = cow) for the smallpox vaccination and thus became the founder of immunology in 1796.

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