Vaccination and Disease Prevention After Germ Theory Flashcards

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What is vaccination?

Vaccination is giving a person a safe form of a disease so their body builds immunity and does not get ill later.

Germ theory showed that tiny microbes cause specific diseases, so scientists could design vaccines that target each germ.

Pasteur weakened or killed the germs in the lab and then used these weak germs to safely protect animals and people.

He made vaccines for chicken cholera and anthrax, and later for rabies in humans.

It was the first time a vaccine made from germs was used to save a human life. It proved that germ theory could be used to prevent deadly disease.

Once scientists knew which germ caused a disease, they could weaken that germ in the lab and turn it into a vaccine.

The government ran mass vaccination programmes and made many vaccines free, so more people could be protected.

Millions of children were vaccinated, and deaths from diphtheria fell sharply in the 1940s.

Routine vaccines protect children from diseases such as polio, measles, mumps, rubella and whooping cough.

Vaccination stopped many people catching killer diseases, so epidemics became rare and death rates fell.

As people learned that germs caused disease, more people trusted vaccines as scientific. Some groups still refused them.

Jenner used cowpox without knowing about germs, but later scientists used lab methods to weaken known germs and create planned vaccines.