The Blue Pelican (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... essentially acting as a vaccine against its far deadlier cousin. (The father of vaccinations, Edward Jenner , observed something similar: Cowpox protected dairy workers from the often-deadly and horribly disfiguring smallpox.) Swine flu, therefore, prevents more flu deaths than it causes. Unfortunately, the U.S. “hysteria curve,” as indicated by emergency-room visits by...
Inner Banks Eagle (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
by Peter W. Huber - November 2009 (Publication dated Autumn 2009) - City JournalOn May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner injects eight-year-old James Phipps with cowpox pus taken from lesions on the hand of milkmaid Sarah Nelmes, and finds that this mild infection protects Phipps from deliberate attempts to infect him with an aged and thus weakened form of the human pox. Jenner publishes...
GreyKodiak (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... to a short rant on the contents of the top ten:1: Michael Faraday, physicist2: JM Barrie, author3: Edward Jenner, smallpox vaccine pioneer4: John Peel, broadcaster5: Alan Turing, mathematician6: Baldrick, Blackadder character7: Midge Ure, singer8: Percy Shaw, cat’s eyes inventor9: Tim Berners-Lee, worldwide web inventor10: Fred Scott, BBC cameramanAdmittedly some of the people in...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... more about them below.TOP 10 'UNSUNG HEROES' 1: Michael Faraday, physicist2: JM Barrie, author3: Edward Jenner, smallpox vaccine pioneer4: John Peel, broadcaster5: Alan Turing6: Baldrick, Blackadder character7: Midge Ure, singer8: Percy Shaw, cat's eyes inventor9: Tim Berners-Lee, worldwide web inventor10: Fred Scott, BBC cameramanSource: National LotteryThomas Clarkson, for instance,...
Sky News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
1. Michael Faraday - Left school at 13 but went on to become one of the most influential scientists in history. His discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831 was crucial in allowing electricity to be used in technology.2. J.M Barrie - Revered as a writer and dramatist but honoured here for leaving the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.3. Edward Jenner...
