Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus, but a preparation of vaccinia (a form of cowpox) virus. In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British physician, demonstrated that infection caused by ...

It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796 ... He called his new procedure vaccination, after vacca, which is Latin ...

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 Charles Jenner. For centuries, smallpox was ...

Twenty years later, in 1796, Edward Jenner determined that inoculation with cowpox, a far milder virus, conferred equally powerful immunity against smallpox. He named the procedure “vaccination ...

Chris Whitty said Edward Jenner "contributed extraordinarily ... and scientist who created the world's first vaccine, in the bid to eradicate smallpox. One of history's deadliest diseases ...

The concept of vaccines first emerged in the 18th century when Dr. Edward Jenner purposely gave a young boy cowpox. Jenner, ...

By Brian Lockhart As part of my work, I do a lot of research. Some of that research is about local history. As such, I have spent considerable time at the sites of ghost towns, pioneer cemeteries, ...

In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British scientist ... this one containing smallpox. James failed to develop the disease, and the idea behind the modern vaccine was born. Though doctors and scientists ...

A strong contemporary anti-vaccination movement ... produced a milder form of smallpox, resulting in permanent immunity. Jenner then conducted a nationwide survey in search of proof of resistance ...