Question

_________ Jenner discovered the vaccine for the first time.

Answer 1

Hint: The vaccine he created was the smallpox vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from the word ‘Variolae vaccinae’ (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox.

Complete answer:
Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine for the first time. Edward Jenner, was an English physician, born on 17 May 1749 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire in England. He was the eighth child of the nine children of the family. His father, Stephen Jenner, was the vicar (representative) of Berkeley, so Jenner received a strong basic education. He went to school in Wotton-under-Edge at Katharine Lady Berkeley's School and in Cirencester. At the age of 14, he became an apprentice to Daniel Ludlow for seven years, a surgeon of Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire. Here, he gained most of the experience needed to become a surgeon himself. In 1770, at the age of 21, Jenner became apprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon John Hunter and others at St George's Hospital, London. Returning to his native countryside in 1773, Jenner became a successful family doctor and surgeon, practicing on dedicated premises at Berkeley. Jenner and others formed the Gloucestershire Medical Society. He died on 26 January 1823.

Additional Information:
- The initial symptoms of smallpox include fever and vomiting.
- Smallpox is a viral disease and caused by the variola virus.

Note: During the era of Edward Jenner, the smallpox disease killed around 10% of the population, with the number as high as 20% in towns, and in cities, the infection spread more rapidly. Edward Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human".