Word of the Week
S01 E05: Vaccine
Season 1 Episode 5 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Cure your lack of knowledge about the origin of this medical term.
Scientists borrowed from Latin to come up with a word that is out standing in its field. Well, not really, but the animal this word takes its name from can be found in a pasture near you.
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Word of the Week is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Word of the Week
S01 E05: Vaccine
Season 1 Episode 5 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Scientists borrowed from Latin to come up with a word that is out standing in its field. Well, not really, but the animal this word takes its name from can be found in a pasture near you.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(lively music) - [Narrator] The word of the week is vaccine, a word that you have heard a lot lately, but do you know its origin?
An English doctor named Edward Jenner suggested the name to describe the use of one virus to protect against another.
In this case, cowpox, a virus that mainly affects cows was used to prevent smallpox in humans.
The Latin word vacca means cow.
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