Smallpox

How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi 4:33

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqUFy-t4MlQ Oct 28, 2013 For 10,000 years, humanity suffered from the scourge of smallpox. The virus killed almost a third of its victims within two weeks and left survivors horribly scarred. But Simona Zompi commends the brave souls -- a Buddhist nun, a boy, a cow, a dairymaid and physician Edward Jenner -- who first stopped the spread of this disastrous disease, to make us smallpox-free today. TEDEd View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-we-conquered-the-deadly-smallpox-virus-simona-zompi

Benjamin Franklin describes the heartbreak of losing his son Francis to smallpox in his autobiography:

“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of the parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.” http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/marriage-and-children

How did we conquer the deadly smallpox virus?

After watching "How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi," complete the TEDEd Think Lesson  and then explain how did we conquer the deadly smallpox virus? Select, Copy, Paste and incorporate ALL all of these terms into a Written Response.

• vaccination

• variolation

• inoculation

• Edward Jenner

• dairymaid

• Blossom the Cow

• James Phipps

Copy and Paste this list of Terms into the Written Response: 

▸ vaccination ▸ variolation ▸ inoculation ▸ Edward Jenner ▸ dairymaid ▸ Blossom the Cow ▸ James Phipps

How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi 4:33

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqUFy-t4MlQ Oct 28, 2013 For 10,000 years, humanity suffered from the scourge of smallpox. The virus killed almost a third of its victims within two weeks and left survivors horribly scarred. But Simona Zompi commends the brave souls -- a Buddhist nun, a boy, a cow, a dairymaid and physician Edward Jenner -- who first stopped the spread of this disastrous disease, to make us smallpox-free today. TEDEd View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-we-conquered-the-deadly-smallpox-virus-simona-zompi

• https://sites.google.com/eusd.org/jgarritson/lessons/socialstudies/disease/smallpox

• https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/index.html

TEDEd Think Lesson

Before smallpox was eradicated, it was a serious infectious disease caused by the variola virus. It was contagious—meaning, it spread from one person to another. People who had smallpox had a fever and a distinctive, progressive skin rash.

Most people with smallpox recovered, but about 3 out of every 10 people with the disease died. Many smallpox survivors have permanent scars over large areas of their body, especially their faces. Some are left blind.

Thanks to the success of vaccination, smallpox was eradicated, and no cases of naturally occurring smallpox have happened since 1977. The last natural outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949. https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox

Learning from smallpox: How to eradicate a disease - Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein 5:45

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSandHijDc Mar 10, 2015 Find out how smallpox became the first (and only) disease to be permanently eradicated through the use of vaccination and isolation to prevent transmission. For most of human history, we have sought to treat and cure diseases. But only in recent decades did it become possible to ensure that a particular disease never threatens humanity again. Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein detail how the story of smallpox – the first and only disease to be permanently eliminated – shows how disease eradication can happen, and why it is so difficult to achieve. TEDEd View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/learning-from-smallpox-how-to-eradicate-a-disease-julie-garon-and-walter-a-orenstein

How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease - Tien Nguyen 4:38

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9LC-3ZKiok Oct 20, 2015 his video was created with support from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity: http://ori.hhs.gov​.  For several centuries, people though diseases were caused by wandering clouds of poisonous vapor. We now know that this theory is pretty ridiculous, and that diseases are caused by specific bacteria. But how did we get to this new idea of germ theory? Tien Nguyen describes the work of several scientists who discredited a widely accepted theory in a way that was beneficial to human health. TEDEd View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-a-few-scientists-transformed-the-way-we-think-about-disease-tien-nguyen