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Fighting Viruses

with Vaccines

History shows us that vaccination has been
proven effective in creating antibodies to
fight viral diseases. How about the COVID-19
vaccines?

bout 225 years ago, on May 14 1796, a
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doctor in Berkeley (United States) Edward
A Jenner, started a small experiment. A small
experiment that later became one of the most
important milestones in healthcare history. The
British doctor tried to take exudate and secretions
from cows affected by smallpox, then inserted
the exudate into the body of an 8-year-old boy
named James Phipps, by scratching his arm.

Jenner, who is now dubbed the father of
The provision of
immunology, apparently wanted to prove his COVID-19 vaccines
becomes hope to
theory. At that time, he found that people who fight the disease,
drank milk from cowpox-infected cows were as it will trigger
the body to create
relatively immune to smallpox disease, including antibody to fight
SARS-CoV-2 virus.
those who had contracted with cowpox would
have similar immunity. His theory had proven
Credit:
right, Phipps did have a fever for several days,
before finally recovering and being immune to the Dharma W./Safran
disease.

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