The Vaccine-

one of the best

invention of
humanity
by Pitic Emanuel & Burlă Ana-Maria
 Table of contents

01 02 03
What is a virus? the vaccine The impact
How do they work & who First vaccine & the idea The impact of vaccines in
discovered them? human medicine
 01
The
virus
How do they work & who
discovered them?
What is a virus?
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that
replicates only inside the living cells of an
organism.

It is basically a code which recreates human RNA

in order to instruct cells into producing
thousands of copies of the original virus.

Therefore, the host cell dies and spreads through

the body many copies of the virus, which infect
many cells; the process continues until there are
no more cells to be infected, which results in the
death of the organism, or until the body kills the
virus using the antibodies.
Who discovered
them?
The idea of small living beings
which make us sick had been
floating around for centuries as you
can see on Wikipedia, but the true
discoverer was
 Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky 
(28 October 1864 – 20 June
1920) was a Russian botanist,
the discoverer of viruses (1892)
and one of the founders
of virology.
he
discover
it?
Using very advanced microscopes
and various organic filters. It is
considered as one of the most
important break-throughs in
modern medicine. Although the
idea of the virus was developed
since 1892, the research about
these small forms of life started
only with the
Spanish
flu
 02
The
vaccine
First vaccine & the idea
 “The lives of millions of children have been
saved, millions have the chance of a longer
healthier life, a greater chance to learn, to play,
to read and write, to move around freely
without suffering.”
—Nelson mandela about
vaccines
What is a vaccine?
A vaccine is a biological preparation that
provides active acquired immunity to a
particular infectious disease, by creating
antibodies which are prepared to fight with the
virus.
The smallpox vaccine was the first
vaccine to be developed against a
History of the
contagious disease. In 1796, the
British doctor Edward Jenner
vaccine
The first world-wide vaccine was
the small-pox vaccine
demonstrated that an infection with
the relatively mild cowpox virus
conferred immunity against the
deadly smallpox virus.
 What is the ‘job’ of the vaccine?

Infection with a dead virus The real infection

Usually, the vaccine introduces in the
body some dead virus, which can be
easily detected by our immune system,
which creates antibodies.
As the organism will meet the original
version of the virus it will have
developed the antibodies to kill it via the
vaccine, which prepared the immune
system.
The impact of
the
vaccines
the vaccine
saves lives
 As of 2020,
the W.H.O
suggest that
200,000,00
0
MILION LIVES
had been saved thanks to the vaccines.
 Greatest achievements

1 2 3 4

Saving many Eradicates Almost Can end the

lives
200.000.000, smallpox eradicates covid
As of 2020 Last active case was on
11 September 1978 poliothe
Reduced It is pandemy
the only way out
number of of this gigantic mess
infections from we’re in, to be honest
49.293 in 1975
to 22 in 2017
World’s greatest vaccine labs
Johnson &
Johnson
Although the company is
from America, it was started
in Belgium as Janssen.

pfizer
Pfizer Inc. is an American
multinational
pharmaceutical corporation.

Shanghai
Pharmaceuticals
Being the best pharmaceutical
Holding
corporation form China puts it on
this shortlist.
Thanks for
your
attention!