NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -As a student of immunology, I learned that Louis Pasteur was really the father of immunology, despite Edward Jenner’s pioneering introduction of vaccination to prevent smallpox in 1798 (Smith, 2011). Although successful, Jenner’s experiments led to no understanding as to how immunity develops.

Detailed explanation-2: -Edward Jenner was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1749, a time when smallpox still claimed the lives of millions of people in periodic epidemics and left millions more with characteristic scars, or pock-marks.

Detailed explanation-3: -Edward Jenner, who discovered that it is possible to vaccinate against Small Pox using material from Cow Pox, is rightly the man who started the science of immunology.

Detailed explanation-4: -The spread of vaccination Edward Jenner spent much of the rest of his life supplying cowpox material to others around the world and discussing related scientific matters. He was so involved in corresponding about smallpox that he called himself ‘the Vaccine Clerk to the World’.

Detailed explanation-5: -Edward Jenner, (17 May 1749-26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. Edward Jenner spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where his father was the vicar.