How one of the worst pandemic in history was finally ended.|BATTLE MONTH|06

in hive-102306 •  4 years ago  (edited)
Can you all who are facing to a pandemic right now since 2019 December believe that there have had a pandemic for centuries from 10,000 BC to 1979? Yes, "smallpox(වසූරිය)" which was also an airborne disease spread through coughing, sneezing and from any bodily fluids have caused 5 million deaths per year by then.

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While the people in that era who showed fever, vomiting and mouth soures as early symptoms and fluid filled blisters with scab over and blindness as later symptoms, starting to die after few days, a Brithish doctor had been searching for a cure.

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When the fact that 'a person who was once infected by cowpox(ගව වසූරිය) is immune to smallpox' was exposed to the society by that doctor Edward Jenner after so many experiments, everybody including doctors laughed at him.

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Dr. Edward Jenner

But Edward who didn't quit from there, sent the successful results of his experiments to London Royal Association. His invention got the acquaintance gradually though it was rejected at first.

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Thanks to that one man's effort, smallpox was eradicated completely from the world in 1979. This the story of the first vaccine and first pandemic defeated by a vaccine in the world. So, let's be possitve and wish for an end date for COVID19 as well since more people are trying to find a vaccine with more developed technology by today. It is wonderful how a disease(smallpox) got cured by another disease(cowpox) though.

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While reading this, my mind is murmuring that will this vaccine be abled to control this COVID 19 epidemic. 😪

It was a tragic to convey, many people had suffered from smallpox throughout long time zone.

My frequent prayers are to have speedy recovery for each and everybody suffering from current global pandemic.

#slbmc

Problem is this Corona virus is making new breeds. But I have a hope for an ending. Let's be careful untill then.

When I'm working at Galle site, during the excavation stage of the site we found a grave . According to the neighbors, they said that it was dug to place the dead bodies of the people died from වසූරිය.

Really? Galle where? Glad smallpox was ended like that since it's symptoms are even severe than COVID 19.

Dadella, Galle

Don't get them out bro. Not the right time. :D

I know about that there was smallpox years ago, but not much was known about this.If they could find a cure in that times, we will definitely find a cure for Covid too. We should have faith🙂

#slbmc

Yup. Hope we will be able to find a cure real quick unlike smallpox which took centuries to find a one.

What a disaster and I wonder why it is repeating over and over. I was afraid to study about this topic but we all should be aware of the past which was the reason even i was studying it from the internet after the current pandemic.
I am sure that there is a very important message from the nature behind all these and I am afraid whether we will be able to understand it❓❓❓

I think that is how the earth naturally controll or balance the human population. By plagues. Theye have been pandemics in every decade.

I feel hopeful but at the same time terrified knowing that an airborne disease could be stopped altogether only through a vaccine. It will take a long time for everyone to get vaccinated. Let's hope it is not that long.

Things are getting worse day by day with new breeds of virus and don't know how long this will exist. Terrifying. Smallpox have existed for centuries. Hope COVID19 won't be like that.

@kashvibhagya,

Thanks for shearing about smallpox and I think covid 19 become more dangerous than smallpox.
Now its take more than 3 million life.
We need Man who same like doctor Edward Jenner to find permanent solution for covid.

#slbmc

I also wish for a good news from someone like dr. Jenner. Cures for pandemics have been found somehow at last and hope that theory will apply to this pandemic as well.

Yes, we hope to be able to defeat Kovid 19, which is a threat to the entire world.

Yup let's keep a hope.😊

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