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Vaccination
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According to the literature, the history of can be traced back to as early as the 7th century when the monks in India tried to immunize themselves by drinking snake . The first vaccination was inoculation with human smallpox, a practice widely out in ancient India, Arabia, and China. This method of vaccination consisted of collecting pus from a patient suffering from a mild form of smallpox virus infection and the sample to a healthy human, which later led to a minor infection. This method was first introduced in England by a Greek named E. Timmons. However, this method had a risk of spreading smallpox in the community and even worsening the health condition of the person who received the inoculation. While the use of human smallpox vaccine was , E. Jenner came up with bovine smallpox vaccine in 1796; this new method also faced controversy but continued to be . Smallpox became a preventable disease by injecting pus extracted from a human infected with cowpox virus. Jenner named the substance "vaccine" after the Latin word "vacca" which means "cow," and thus the process of giving vaccine became "vaccination".
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