Edward Jenner
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 200 years ago |
| Died | Berkeley |
| Berkeley | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Residence | Berkeley |
| Gloucestershire | |
| Children | Edward Robert Jenner |
| Catherine Fitzhardinge Jenner | |
| Robert Fitzhardinge Jenner | |
| Siblings | Mary Jenner |
| Henry Jenner | |
| Sarah Jenner | |
| Stephen Jenner | |
| Anne Jenner | |
| Date of birth | May 17,1749 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Spouse | Catharine Kingscote |
| Parents | Reverend Stephen Jenner |
| Sarah Jenner | |
| Books | Vaccination Against Smallpox |
| An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae | |
| The Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation | |
| A Continuation of Facts and Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox | |
| Born | Berkeley |
| United Kingdom | |
| Education | University of St Andrews |
| Date of died | January 26,1823 |
| Nationality | English |
| French | |
| Place of burial | St Mary's Church, Berkeley, United Kingdom |
| Grandchildren | Catherine Sarah Jenner Bedford |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 414571 |
Edward Jenner Life story
Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae, the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox.
'Vax' declared Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year
... According to the OED, this is due to English physician and scientist Edward Jenner s pioneering work on vaccination against smallpox in the late 1790s and early 1800s...
The anti-vaccination movement, grabbed Victorian England
... why you have a cheap and seemingly effective solution to vaccination - to tear apart and threaten society? An anti-vax website quoted, The city of Leicester: sanitation trump is the vaccination , as one of their 5 Historical vaccine scandals, The story begins in 1798 with the Gloucestershire doctor, Edward Jenner, a successful Test of the country-lore that a dose of relatively mild cowpox infection gave protection against smallpox...
'Vax' declared Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year
Vax has been chosen as The Word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and anti-vaxxer all seeing a surge in use.
OED senior editor Fiona McPherson says vax was an obvious choice as it has made " The Most striking impact".
" It goes back at least to the 1980s, but according to our corpus it was rarely used until this year, " She Said .
" When you add to that its versatility in forming other words - vaxxie, vax-a-thon, vaxinista - it became clear that vax was the standout in The Crowd . "
Vax and vaxx are both accepted spellings but the form with one x is more common.
Oxford English Dictionary definitions for vax:
vax n. A vaccine or vaccinationvax v. Treat (someone) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease; vaccinatevaxxie n. A photograph of oneself taking during or immediately before or after a vaccination, especially one against Covid-19, and typically shared on Social Media ; a vaccination selfieanti-vax adj. Opposed to vaccinationanti-vaxxer n. A person who is opposed to vaccinationdouble-vaxxed adj. Having received two doses of a vaccineUse of The Word pandemic has also increased by More Than 57,000% this year.
Oxford Languages and Collins each decide their own word of the year, and in 2020.
But Oxford decided it was an with too many contenders, so expanded its award to encompass a handful of newly key words including lockdown, bushfires and Covid-19, as well as Black Lives Matter, WFH [working from home], keyworkers and furlough.
This year's Oxford-winning word, vax, was first recorded in English in 1799, while its derivatives vaccinate and vaccination both first appear in 1800.
All of these words ultimately come from the Latin word vacca, which means cow. According to the OED, this is due to English physician and scientist Edward Jenner 's pioneering work on vaccination against smallpox in the late 1790s and early 1800s.
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Source of news: bbc.com
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