WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR I

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did the Health Organisation help to set up in London, Copenhagen and Singapore?
A
24 hour pharmacies.
B
Research institutions which developed internationally accepted vaccines for diseases like tetanus, tuberculosis and diphtheria.
C
Research hospitals.
D
Holiday homes for doctors.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr Edward Jenner created the world’s first successful vaccine. He found out that people infected with cowpox were immune to smallpox. In May 1796, English physician Edward Jenner expands on this discovery and inoculates 8-year-old James Phipps with matter collected from a cowpox sore on the hand of a milkmaid.

Detailed explanation-2: -The World Health Organisation stated that “the two public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world’s health are clean water and vaccines.” example, babies below the age of two months, who are too young to be immunised, are at greatest risk of dying if they catch whooping cough.

Detailed explanation-3: -More than 18 million people are able to walk today who would otherwise have been paralyzed, and 1.5 million childhood deaths have been averted thanks to the polio vaccine.

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