MIC 463 Chapter : History Of Virology Timeline
15 Mar 2019
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Paralytic poliomyelitis: first written record of virus infection, heiroglyph from memphis, the capital of ancient egypt, drawn in approximately. Aztec smallpox victims: from historia de las casas de nueva espana, volume 4, book 12, lam. cliii, plate 114. Together with his 4-600 soldiers and the accidentally introduced smallpox virus, he destroyed the powerful aztec empire within two years. When he arrived, about 25-30 million natives inhabited the region. Half a century later, 3 million native people survived. Antoni van leeuwenhoek (1632-1723: father of microscopy 1st microscope, animalcules particles floating under microscope, he said that most bacteria are larger than viruses. In the late 1700"s edward jenner, a country doctor in england, began to notice a similarity between smallpox and cowpox. He was particularly intrigued when a milkmaid told him she would not catch the disease because she had had cowpox.
