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disease and disorder project for health, In 1959, the World Health…

- - - - british soldiers who were immune
        
        give blankets covered in the puss from the smallpox bumps
        
        then the indigenous people would get it
- - - - By the time the Intensified Eradication Program began in 1967, smallpox had already been eliminated in North America (1952) and Europe (1953), leaving South America, Asia, and Africa (smallpox was never widespread in Australia). The Program made steady progress toward ridding the world of this disease, and by 1971 smallpox was eradicated from South America, followed by Asia (1975), and finally Africa (1977).
    - - 6th Century – Increased trade with China and Korea introduces smallpox into Japan.
      - 7th Century – Arab expansion spreads smallpox into northern Africa, Spain, and Portugal.
      - 11th Century – Crusades further spread smallpox in Europe.
      - 15th Century – Portuguese occupation introduces smallpox into part of western Africa.
      - 16th Century – European colonization and the African slave trade import smallpox into the Caribbean and Central and South America.
      - 17th Century – European colonization imports smallpox into North America.
      - 18th Century – Exploration by Great Britain introduces smallpox into Australia.
- - - - still a high chance of dying
  - - - you could not clot your blood
      - a lot of infections
      - did not work
      - got rid of white blood cells
  - - - never got smallpox
        
        the viruses were very closely related
        
        so they would have the antibodies
        
        seen as a superstition
        
        in 1768 a man called john fewster thought to use cowpox as a virolation, but no one wanted to because it seemed like an unnecessary health risk.
        
        much later, in 1796, edward jenner thought to test this theory, and it worked
        
        (story here)
        
        The first experiment to test this theory involved milkmaid Sarah Nelmes and James Phipps, the 9 year-old son of Jenner’s gardener. Dr. Jenner took material from a cowpox sore on Nelmes’ hand and inoculated it into Phipps’ arm.
        
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