Google dedicated the new Doodle to the scientist Michiaki Takahashi, a virologist from Japan, who defeated chicken pox and changed many lives around the world for the better.
According to aljazeera.com, the Japanese virologist who passed away in 2013, was born on February 17, 1928. He took the Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Osaka and joined the Microbial Diseases Research Institute of the University of Osaka, while after studying measles and polio, he received a research scholarship in 1963 at Baylor College, USA.
Then lived a personal adventure with his son, which would lead to the discovery of the vaccine, which put an end to chickenpox.
When the virus “knocked” on the family door
THE 3 year old son of Mitsiaki Takahashi contracted chickenpox in 1964, when he came in contact with the daughter of a neighboring family in Houston. While the girl was with his family, Takahashi spotted a “blister-like rash on his head,” he said in a 2011 interview with the Financial Times.
Takahashi recognized the symptoms, knowing that they could be serious and that dthere was no cure. After all, his son showed severe symptomswith blisters all over his body and high fever.
«His symptoms progressed quickly and severely. “His temperature dropped and he began to have difficulty breathing,” Takahashi described. “All my wife and I could do was watch him day and night,” he recalls.
But over time, the symptoms improved and his son recovered. After that, he realized the severity of chickenpox, although it was considered a mild illness.
“Then I realized I had to use my knowledge “for the viruses to develop a vaccine against chickenpox,” he said.
How the vaccine works
Ndtv.com reports that vaccine developed using chickenpox-shingles virus (VZV) isolated from bubbly liquid of a child. VZV is a human herpesvirus that causes shingles.
According to Japanese researchers, the boy’s name was Oka, so the virus was named the strain Oka. The vaccine was also named Oka Varicella Vaccine.
Source: News Beast
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