1.Who was an English country doctor?
Dr. Edward Jenner
2.What happened in the late 1780’s?
A smallpox disease was killing a lot of people over Europe.
3.How did Dr. Jenner gather information about the disease?
He asked questions and took notes about the disease.
4. Why did he do so?
He did so to help the patient with smallpox.
( He wanted to find a cure to small pox.)
5. Which animal was the disease carrier?
Cows were the carriers of the disease.
6.What did the doctor find out about the milkmaid?
They often got sick with cowpox and became healthy again.
7.How did he test his theory?
He did an experiment with a boy by infecting him with cowpox. The boy got sick and then he gave the boy an infection with smallpox but the boy did not get sick.
8.What did other doctors think about Dr. Jenner’s method of smallpox treatment?
They did not believe that Dr. Jenner’s idea of using a disease to fight a disease was right.
9. What did Dr. Jenner call his new way of smallpox treatment?
He called it vaccination
10.Do scientists and researchers still use his technique of using a disease to stop a disease?
Yes, they still do.
11.Do you think HIV disease could be cured by vaccine?
Yes, I think so.