
Nursing Job Update
June 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
*MOST IMPORTANT POINTS*
• Term ‘Vaccination’: Edward Jenner
• Term ‘Vaccine’: Louis Pasteur
• Vaccines- Anthrax, Rabies: Louis Pasteur
• First Polio Vaccine: Jonas Salk
• Penicillin (First antibiotic): Alexander Fleming
• Growth Chart: David Morley
• Homeopathy: Samuel Hahnemann
• Blood group types: Karl Landsteiner
• Citrus fruits in prevention of Scurvy: James Lind
• Transmission of Yellow fever: Walter Reed
• Life cycle of Plasmodium: Ronald Ross First Country Honours
• First country to socialize medicine completely: Russia
• First country to introduce compulsory sickness insurance: Germany
• First country to start family planning programme: India
• First country to start blindness control programme: India
• First country to establish finger printing bureau: India (Calcutta, 1897)
IFA – SUPPLIMENTATION -- ACC. To ANEMIA MUKT BHARAT ( 2018-2022)
6-59 month children – 20mg + 100mcg – Biweekly – bottle – 50ml
5-9 years children - 45 mg + 400 mcg – weekly – pink colour tablet
10-19 years adolescent - 60 mg + 500mcg – weekly – blue colour tab.
20-49 years women ( non-preg) – 60 mg + 500 mcg – weekly – red colour tab
Preg. ,lactating mothers - 60 mg + 500 mcg – Daily – red colour tab Smallpox Eradication
• Last case of smallpox in world: 26th October 1977 (Somalia)
• WHO declared global eradication of smallpox: 8th May 1980
• Last indigenous case of smallpox in India: 17th May 1975 (Bihar)
• Last known case of smallpox in India: 24th May 1975 (Importation from Bangladesh)
• India declared smallpox free: April 1977 Few Important Diseases in Public Health
• Father of Public Health: Cholera
• Barometer of Social Welfare: Tuberculosis
• Slims’ Disease: HIV/AIDS
Black Sickness: Kala Azar (Leishmaniasis)
• Black Death: Plague
• Cerebrospinal fever: Meningococcal meningitis
• Break-bone fever: Dengue
• Monkey fever/ disease: KFD (Kyasanur Forest Disease)
• 5-day fever: Trench fever
• 8th day disease: Tetanus neonatorum
• 100-day cough: Pertussis (Whooping cough)
• Koch’s Phenomenon: Tuberculosis
• Hansen’s disease: Leprosy
• Rubeola: Measles
• Rubella: German measles
• Rubula: Mumps
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