ORIGIN OF CHICKENPOX
Chickenpox was discovered by Giovanni Filippo during the 1500s in Italy. Richard Mortan was an English physician gave the name chickenpox in the 1600s. He thought it was a milder form of smallpox. Another English physician known as William Heberden was the first physician to prove that chickenpox was actually different from smallpox.
William Heberden explained how chickenpox was a mild disease and he also explained that any individual who has had chickenpox remains immune. In the year 1875 it was discovered by a scientist that chickenpox was caused by an infectious agent. A man known as Rudolf Steiner, took some fluid from the chickenpox blisters of an infected individual and decided to rub the fluid upon the skin of healthy volunteers.Those healthy volunteers also developed an itchy bumpy rash. In 1909, Von Bokay suggested that shingles and chickenpox were related infections. In the 1920s and 1930s children were inoculated with the fluid from zoster vesicles, which were shown to contract chickenpox. In 1972, someone known as Takahashi developed attenuated Varicella- Zoster Virus vaccine for the prevention of varicella. |