It was highly contagious, lethal and mysterious
Then medical experts developed treatments
and vaccines, and the affliction disappeared
—but not entirely
How Science Conquered Diphtheria : VACCINE !
Even Noah Webster, that master of words, did not have a name for the terrible sickness. “In May 1735,” he wrote in A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, “in a wet cold season, appeared at Kingston, an inland town in New-Hampshire, situated in a low plain, a disease among children, commonly called the ‘throat distemper,’ of a most malignant kind, and by far the most fatal ever known in this country.”
In 1821, a French physician, Pierre Bretonneau, gave the disease a name: diphtérite. He based it on the Greek word diphthera, for leather
—a reference to the affliction’s signature physical feature, a thick,
leathery buildup of dead tissue in a patient’s throat,
which makes breathing and swallowing difficult, or impossible.
And children, with their relatively small airways, were particularly vulnerable.
—a reference to the affliction’s signature physical feature, a thick,
leathery buildup of dead tissue in a patient’s throat,
which makes breathing and swallowing difficult, or impossible.
And children, with their relatively small airways, were particularly vulnerable.
Where did Dyptheria Go ???
Shatine, your LINKS can advise you ???
Shatine, your LINKS can advise you ???
Anti Vaxxers are hiding from FACTS.....hahahaha
“The greatest care and thoughtfulness should be exercised
in these cases of simple sore throat, as in the severer cases; and it should be constantly borne in mind that the kissing of children
at such times is most dangerous.”
in these cases of simple sore throat, as in the severer cases; and it should be constantly borne in mind that the kissing of children
at such times is most dangerous.”
VACCINES ......rule !
Do Not MESS with SCIENCE ~
Do Not MESS with SCIENCE ~
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