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First signs on plague
The first outbreaks of plague start at penisilum , egypt -
Oct 10, 1000
Early chinese inoculation
The son of a Chinese statesman was said to have been inoculated against smallpox, probably by having powder from pulverized smallpox scabs blown into his nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into the skin. -
first microscopes
Duch lens grinder, named zacharius jannasen invented the microscope -
Influenza outbreak
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New disease emerges in Britain
A new unknown disease emerges in Britain, possibly typhus -
The great plague of london
Theplague reaches london, killing over 100,000 people -
Measels epidemic in london
Jan – June measles epidemic (London) followed by smallpox epidemic, mention of ‘hooping cough- high diarrhoea in infants -
FIRST VACCINATION MADE
Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus. In his famous experiment, he rubs pus from a dairymaid's cowpox postule into scratches on the arm of his gardener's 8-year-old son, and then exposes him to smallpox six weeks later (which he does not develop). The process becomes known as vaccination from the Latin vacca for cow. Vaccination with cowpox is made compulsory in Britain in 1853. Jenner is sometimes called the founding father of immu -
First vaccine for cholera
first vaccine for cholera -
first vaccine for antharax
first vaccine for antharax -
First vaccine for rabies
Well, read the title ... -
First vaccine for measels
First measels vaccine -
First vaccine for rubella
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scientists make embryo breakthrough
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. Read more: Medical Advances Timeline — Infoplease.com -
smallpox discovered
A persian physician Rhazez is first to discover smallpox, as from measels to suggest blood as the cause of the infectius disease
