{"id":2203,"date":"2020-07-23T18:12:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2020-07-23T18:12:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:12:06","slug":"q-14-what-are-vaccines-who-introduced-worlds-first-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/q-14-what-are-vaccines-who-introduced-worlds-first-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Q.14 What are vaccines? Who introduced world\u2019s first vaccination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q.14 What are vaccines? Who introduced world\u2019s first vaccination?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Definition<\/strong><br \/>\nA vaccine is a material containing weakened or killed pathogens and is used to produce immunity to a disease by stimulating the production of antibodies.<br \/>\n<strong>World&#8217;s First vaccination . <\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1796, a British physician, Edward Jenner, infected a young boy with cowpox, by injecting pus cells. After the boy had recovered from cowpox, Jenner injected the pus cells from a smallpox patient into him. The boy did not get smallpox,<br \/>\nSo it became clear that intentional infection with cowpox protected people from small pox. This method was named vaccination and the substance used to vaccinate is called a &#8220;vaccine&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2204 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"183\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/unit-18-pharmacology-long-questions\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1462 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back_button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q.14 What are vaccines? Who introduced world\u2019s first vaccination? Answer: Definition A vaccine is a material containing weakened or killed pathogens and is used to produce immunity to a disease by stimulating the production of antibodies. World&#8217;s First vaccination . In 1796, a British physician, Edward Jenner, infected a young boy with cowpox, by injecting&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/q-14-what-are-vaccines-who-introduced-worlds-first-vaccination\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q.14 What are vaccines? Who introduced world\u2019s first vaccination?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}