Topic 4-Cells & Systems

Question 1

What is a vaccine?

Answer 1

Substance that is taken or injected into an animal or person to produce an immunity to a disease. Usually prepared from a mild form of the disease.

Question 2

Who created the first vaccine?

Answer 2

In the late 1700s, an English country doctor named Edward Jenner created the first vaccine

Question 3

How did Edward Jenner create the first vaccine?

Answer 3

He discovered that milkmaids that had cowpox were immune to smallpox. He began purposefully infecting people with cowpox so they didn’t contract smallpox