President Roosevelt of the United States, novelist Yu-jeong Kim, and Peter II of Russia Of these three Have in common What? ‘Polio’,’Tuberculosis’,’Naturalpox’, etc. These are people who have had a deadly epidemic. If, at the time How would the lives of the three people have changed if there were’vaccines’?
The importance of vaccines triggered by COVID-19! 6 deadly epidemics that put the world in crisis Through’Naturalpox’,’Measles’,’Rabies’,’Polio’,’Tuberculosis’, and’Mumps). How have we dealt with the epidemic crisis in history, How the epidemic has changed since the birth of the vaccine Researcher on the history of diseases, together with Dr. Kim Seo-hyung, examines.
* Broadcast date and time: February 28 (Sun), 2021 at 7:10 pm KBS 1TV
The punishment of God on humans? The beginning of the pandemic -Smallpox, measles
‘The state of epidemic is not limited to one region or country, but is prevalent globally’… It is’pandemic’. Since the establishment of the WHO in 1948, the pandemic has been proclaimed three times in human history. These include the 1968 influenza (Hong Kong flu), the 2009 swine flu, and the 2020 corona 19. So, was there no pandemic before?
Experts call it’Natural Bean’ as the first pandemic in human history. Smallpox had a high mortality rate, killing about 50 million people 10% of the Roman Empire’s population at the time. There is no cause or cure. People at the time thought that smallpox was a punishment for humans by God. Various methods, such as gut and superstition, were mobilized, but there was no effect.
Then in May 1976, British doctor Jenner hears rumors that people with cowpox (acute infectious disease related to cattle) do not get smallpox. An 8-year-old boy was rubbed with vaccinia pus into the wound and injected with smallpox bacteria. It was the moment when mankind’s first vaccine was born. ‘Smallpox wasn’t the only disease that was believed to be a plague = ghost.
The disease with the most records in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty is’measles’. At that time, the officials of Silhak scholars supported the power of disease research, but it was not enough, and the measles vaccine appeared in 1963.
The birth of the second generation vaccine-rabies vaccine
In the past, infectious diseases originated in animals familiar with humans. It was 30,000 years ago that humans and dogs began to live together. ‘Rabies’ is a disease that appeared with dogs as they entered the human realm. It is a disease caused by bites of animals with the rabies virus. It is a very scary disease with 100% lethality along with symptoms of aggression, confusion, seizures, and rabies.
Pasteur, a biochemist familiar to us, has developed a rabies vaccine. The cause of the disease was clearly identified and a rational treatment was suggested through full-scale vaccine development. A vaccine (attenuated vaccine) with weakened toxicity by drying the spinal cord of the brain of a rabbit with rabies for a long time It was injected into dogs to confirm the effect of preventing rabies. It was the birth of a second-generation vaccine following smallpox.
Opening the Vaccine Era-Polio Vaccine
‘Polio’ is a nervous system infectious disease caused by poliovirus. In 1940, polio spread rapidly throughout the United States. At the time, people said that polio, which engulfed the entire city in great chaos, was a fear comparable to an atomic bomb.
Research on polio vaccine began to be active in 1948. Under the direction of Dr. Jonus Soak, Clinical trials were conducted. 20,000 doctors and public health officials, 64,000 school officials, The experiment involving about 1.8 million children was successful, As a result, the number of polio cases decreased significantly, to 160 in 1961.
In particular, Dr. Sok did not exercise his patent rights for the public interest. The famous words he left are still being talked about. “Are you going to patent the sun?”
Received the Nobel Prize-BCG Tuberculosis Vaccine
Since 1962, there is a vaccine that requires vaccination for all newborns within 4 weeks of age. It is the’BCG’ vaccine that is not injected. The BCG vaccine is associated with the epidemic that caused the most deaths in human history. It is’tuberculosis’. Tuberculosis is mainly infected in the lungs by tuberculosis bacteria, and since industrialization in the mid-18th century It has spread all over the world.
German bacteriologist Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the microscope my wife gave me as a birthday present. The tuberculosis vaccine research has begun. He was the founder of bacteriology, proving that disease is caused by bacteria. Based on this research, Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The tuberculin reaction test he invented has been widely used until now as a method to check the presence or absence of tuberculosis.
Why reject the vaccine-MMR vaccine debate and drug-free child-raising campaign
It takes a lot of time, effort, and personnel before a vaccine can be made. But in human history, there are scientists who have developed more than 40 vaccines?
The main character is Dr. Morris Hillman of the United States. Hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, pneumonia, etc… We have developed the most vaccines in human history.
Intuitively realizing her daughter’s neck pain, taking a sample, Morris Hillman developed a vaccine to prevent mumps. This vaccine is known as a vaccine that prevents not only mumps, but also measles and rubella, which are popular worldwide. It is the first vaccine incorporating a live virus strain and It was named’MMR vaccine’.
However, in 1998, an unexpected controversy arose over the MMR vaccine. It is because of the eyes of British doctor Andrew Wakefield. In his paper,’five out of eight autistic patients ‘A child who received the MMR vaccine.’
Confused parents participated in the anti-vaccine campaign As a result, the number of people infected with measles in the U.S. reached the highest in 2019. Is this thesis really true?
February 26, 2021, Finally, the COVID-19 vaccination started in Korea.
That freed countless humans from the fear of death, The greatest’public health triumph’ in history, a remarkable achievement in science and medicine, vaccines. Can the Corona 19 vaccine really be the 7th vaccine that saved humanity?
<이슈PICK! 쌤과 함께> Dr. Seohyung Kim, a researcher in the history of diseases, Sunday, February 28 It will be aired on KBS 1TV at 7:10 pm.