Questions: (Edward Jenner)
What are micro-organisms and how do they cause disease?
Microbes cause disease when they are able to reproduce in the body. They find a host to live inside and from there they reproduce harmful substances called toxins and damage organs. People have said that someone who has a harmful disease-causing microbes in them is classified as ‘infected’.
What are some diseases caused by micro-organisms?
On the table below is common diseases caused by microbes and in the next four columns is the specific microbe that caused it. The dash below the specific microbes are the one that caused it:
Disease: Bacteria: Virus: Protozoa: Fungus:
Chicken Pox -
Skin Diseases - - - -
Pneumonia (Skin Disease) - - -
Common Cold -
Flu -
What impact/contributions did the scientist make to the medical world?
Edward Jenner impacted contributed to the medical world by creating a cure that prevents people getting the disease Smallpox and preventing people from dying, especially children. He named the cure ‘vaccination’. Smallpox was a very feared disease back then and one in every three people who got it died. For those people who did survive they were badly disfigured.
What are micro-organisms and how do they cause disease?
Microbes cause disease when they are able to reproduce in the body. They find a host to live inside and from there they reproduce harmful substances called toxins and damage organs. People have said that someone who has a harmful disease-causing microbes in them is classified as ‘infected’.
What are some diseases caused by micro-organisms?
On the table below is common diseases caused by microbes and in the next four columns is the specific microbe that caused it. The dash below the specific microbes are the one that caused it:
Disease: Bacteria: Virus: Protozoa: Fungus:
Chicken Pox -
Skin Diseases - - - -
Pneumonia (Skin Disease) - - -
Common Cold -
Flu -
What impact/contributions did the scientist make to the medical world?
Edward Jenner impacted contributed to the medical world by creating a cure that prevents people getting the disease Smallpox and preventing people from dying, especially children. He named the cure ‘vaccination’. Smallpox was a very feared disease back then and one in every three people who got it died. For those people who did survive they were badly disfigured.