The pioneering local doctor administering the vaccine, Edward Jenner, called the modest building in his garden the “Temple of Vaccinia,” and from this place grew a public health movement that ...

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

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

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

Lady Montagu, who had done so much to fight smallpox, died of cancer in 1762. Edward Jenner was born in 1749, the son of a country vicar, in the English village of Berkeley, Gloucestershire.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The smallpox vaccine was first created by Edward Jenner in 1796 after “he observed that milkmaids who previously had caught cowpox did not catch smallpox,” according to the WHO. Jenner ...

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 ...

Scott and Aaron remember vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner and evolution teacher John Scopes - but Aaron's not a fan of his post-teaching career.