Vaccine
concept · 1796 · Industrial Revolution
Preventing a disease with a weakened pathogen (Jenner).
Author: Edward Jenner.
Principles and materials it uses
- Syringe — uses. Injections.
- Germ theory of disease — uses. Pasteur developed vaccination on the basis of germ theory.
- Cold chain — uses. Cold storage.
- Antibodies — uses. A vaccine triggers the production of antibodies.
What it is a kind of
- mRNA vaccine — includes. A vaccine.
- Smallpox vaccine — includes. The first vaccine.
- Rabies vaccine — includes. A vaccine.
- Polio vaccine — includes. A vaccine.