Child mortality has been halved in the last 25 years. Building on this progress, new innovations in immunization are working ...

Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796, pioneering immunization practices. Louis Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and introduced pasteurization.

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

As the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program reaches full stride, approximating 3 million shots per day, the time is ripe to recall the contributions of the physician-scientist who first put vaccines ...

Looking Back At Jenner, Vaccine Developers Prepare For 21st Century. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first vaccine, which was developed against smallpox. As vaccine researchers launch a ...

In addition to the trenches in the paddock, archaeologists are working in the garden that once belonged to 18th-century physician Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine.

On May 14, 1796, Englishman Edward Jenner tested vaccination on a human subject. Building on conventional wisdom, Jenner introduced vaccination against smallpox, a disease that has now been ...

It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796. Armed with the ...

A section of cow horn, inscribed 'G C Jenner, 1825'; possibly a relic of a cow called 'Blossom' - the source of the first vaccination fluid. 'G C' is Edward Jenner's (1749-1823) nephew, George ...