Virology

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  • 1400 BCE

    First

    First written record of virus infections in hieroglyphics fount in Memphis, Egypt.
  • 100 BCE

    China

    Protection from smallpox using variolation practice.

  • Vaccination

    Edward Jenner vaccinated a boy with cowpox-infected material which stopped smallpox.

  • Germ Theory

    Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur
    Pasteur identified rabies to be caused by an agent he termed "virus" from the Latin for "Poison".

  • 1892 beginning of virology

    Dmitri Iwanowski showed that ceramic filtered extracts from diseased plants could transmit diseases plants could transmit disease to other plants.

  • 1898

    Martinus Beijerinick work on TMV.
    Freidrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch work on foot and mouth disease in cattle.

  • Landseiner and Popper

    Poliomyelitis (Yellow Fever) was the first human disease to be recognised as a viral disease.

  • 1915 - 1917

    Bacteriophages (eaters of bacteria) Frederick Twort and Felix d'Herelle discovered viruses which infect bacteria.

  • 1950 - 2003

    Discoveries of Ebola, West Nile, HIV, SARS, etc