Edward Jenner Biography

Edward Jenner biography

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NAME: Edward Jenner
OCCUPATION: Surgeon
BIRTH DATE: May 17, 1749
DEATH DATE: January 26, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH: Berkeley, England
PLACE OF DEATH: Berkeley, England

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English surgeon Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine for smallpox, greatly reducing the impact of a disease that had killed millions.

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As a youth, Edward Jenner noticed that people who caught the relatively harmless disease cowpox did not contract smallpox. In 1796 he inoculated a young boy with matter taken from a dairymaid's fresh cowpox lesions. The boy caught cowpox and, when subsequently inoculated with smallpox, did not contract the deadlier disease. The procedure spread and the death rate from smallpox fell.