Vaccinations in Denmark: Difference between revisions

'''<br>'''Vaccination comes from the word "vacca", which means cow.&nbsp; Arround the year 1800 the english doctor Edward Jenner discovered that some milkmaids in his locality did not get smallpox.&nbsp; The girls who had had cowpox and were protected from the illness.&nbsp; The girls also did not get scarred by the cowpox and so Jenner became the first to administer systematic vaccations.&nbsp; The first to vacinate in Denmark, was doctor Winsløv in Copenhagen.&nbsp; That was in 1801, he got vacine direct from Jenner.&nbsp; There had been some attempts at vaccination before, but not systematically. For example, the doctor for King Christian the seventh, Struensee, inoculated the King's son who would later be known as Frederick the sixth and a small medal commemorating the event was struck.<br>