One of the most important developments in the history of West Asia, the proclamation of the State of Israel, took place on ...

Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the ...

These actions fly in the face of public health discoveries over the past 300 years. Careful clinical and epidemiological ...

And among the countless vaccination related stories, the story of Englishman Edward Jenner also found mention on occasions. But considering that we have collectively forgotten a lot of good that ...

On May 14, 2000, hundreds of thousands of mothers and other gun-control advocates took part in the "Million Mom March" in ...

It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796. Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox ...

In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British scientist and surgeon, had a brainstorm that ultimately led to the development of the first vaccine. A young milkmaid had told him how people who contracted ...

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 ...

He taught students such as Edward Jenner to experiment and carry our research and use what they found out to improve treatment of their patients. In Britain in 1757, a sinister enemy lurked ...