Smallpox Disease and Its Control (Bangkagan)

Smallpox Disease and Its Control

In the past before scientists discovered that viruses and bacteria are the causes of most diseases people made all sorts of futile and unscientific attemps to ward off disease. Diabetes Reducer ReviewThey burnt strongly smelling woods in their houses they tied charms over the doorway of their houses to keep out as they thought diseases-carrying spirits they carried other charms about on their persons or made incisions in their skin into which they rubbed certain powders and at times to ward off epidemics a whole town might offer sacrifices to certain spirits believed to be responsible for bringing or controlling certain diseases such as smallpox.However after the bacteria causing many diseases were discovered one after the other during the nineteenth century it became possible to begin an organised and scientific attack on these old enemies of mankind. Careful study revealed the life histories of bacteria--where they lived what bubonic plague for instance a disease which had killed millions in Europe in the past were found not only infected people but also in the blood of infected rats. A British bacteriologist P. L. Simond showed that these bacteria are passed from rats to Man by an infected rat-flea a little insect which lives on the rat as a parasite.s asrightasrain.co diabetes-reducer-review