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The truth about the first person to find the vaccine
Louis Pasteur is recognized by the world as the father of vaccines, but the first person to lay the foundation for vaccination is Edward Jenner, an honorary doctor in th…
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The experiment on an 8-year-old boy was the source of the invention of the vaccine
The vaccine, since its discovery and use, has protected us from horrible diseases, seemingly impossible to cure, so this is one of the greatest discoveries of humanity.
Medicine - Health
The most deadly plague in history
According to The Conversation, in the past, people faced many infectious diseases. In which there are four dangerous diseases that people must fight for prevention and t…
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The boy suddenly suffers from a strange, extinct disease from the 18th century
Recently, Chester hospital in Wales (England) suddenly received a strange case. The patient was a 15-year-old teenager, his hands and feet floating like smallpox.
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New discovery about the source of smallpox vaccine preparation
The first vaccine to appear in the world and considered one of the greatest mysteries in medical history, can be prepared from horse bean virus, not cowpox virus, as eve…
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10 diseases once terrified humans
The European population was halved by the plague, while the Spanish flu killed about 20 to 100 million people around the world earlier in the century.
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Smallpox virus can kill cancer cells
Smallpox virus after genetically modified has the ability to attack, kill cancer cells and shrink cancerous tumors but is still completely harmless to healthy cells.
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The risk of dispersing smallpox virus through biological weapons
Russia and the US say that more research is needed to create safer vaccines against deadly diseases that have been wiped out more than 30 years ago.
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Preparation of vaccine for smallpox and anthrax
US scientists say they have successfully prepared a vaccine
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Preparing vaccines against smallpox from plants
Researchers have developed a vaccine to prevent smallpox from plants and they say the vaccine is both effective and safe.
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Treat cancer by virus
British scientists are expected to begin using this virus and smallpox virus this year to conduct clinical trials on people who treat cancer. Earlier, the preliminary st…
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50 million people worldwide suffer from animal diseases
A recent study found that between 2000 and 2005, about 50 million people worldwide were infected with cattle and mosquitoes, of which 78,000 died.
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Pandemic & infectious diseases in human history
In the early 20th century, there were two major epidemics, 1913 smallpox and Spanish flu in 1919. Spanish flu entered Australia after the first post-World War soldiers r…
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14 types of animal infections
It is not new for animals to become infected and infect people. But in recent years there have been such cases: animals are increasingly transmitted to viruses, bacteria…