Word: jenner
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Fifth Column. Good's achievements in immunology rest on a broad foundation of work by other scientists dating back to 1796, when the British Physician Edward Jenner inoculated an eight-year-old boy with fluid from a cowpox pustule in a successful attempt to give him resistance against the more virulent smallpox. Jenner knew nothing about the immune system, but he had recognized that milkmaids who frequently came in contact with cows suffering from cowpox seldom contracted smallpox. Scientists began to suspect that the body had a mechanism for identifying and combatting disease agents only after Louis Pasteur discovered...
...most important local developments, in this light, is that at least ten Boston people plan to work full-time for Ananda Marga this summer, and many plan brief trips to India. Wendy Jenner, a 3rd year student at Northeastern who plans to work full-time, says that she "earlier doubted that this rather inept group of people could really do much. But now the prospect and responsibility of full-time work have catalyzed in me a new sense of purpose, of reality: that Ananda Marga here is no longer just a 'socializing-spiritual' thing but a live work group, something...
Vaccination against smallpox is almost 200 years old, yet it is still far from being an invariably safe procedure. Although production methods have become more sanitary, the vaccine itself has changed little since Edward Jenner scraped it from sores on the hand of a cowpox-infected dairymaid. It causes severe and even fatal reactions in a small but appreciable number of people, with an average of seven deaths reported annually in the U.S. since 1950. Also, it probably leaves a greater number of victims with permanent mental damage from spread of the cowpox virus to the brain...