Her father told an interviewer that, no, he didn’t regret her vaccine status, and no, he had no plans to vaccinate his other ...

The best-known version of the smallpox-vaccine story goes like this: In 1796, the British doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids exposed to a mild disease called cowpox were unusually ...

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

1. Jenner Built on the Work of Others Born in England in 1749, Jenner was inoculated as a child against smallpox, a dread disease that appears to have scarred 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummies.

The word “vaccine” stems from the original smallpox immunization, which was given by the English physician Edward Jenner in 1796, using the blister material from a case of cowpox on the hand ...

The first vaccine developed was the smallpox vaccine by Edward Jenner in 1796. Jenner took a small amount of pus from a dairy maid infected with cowpox, an illness like smallpox, and injected the ...

A rural physician in the English countryside, Edward Jenner heard stories of local farmers and milkmaids who were immune to smallpox; they had taken ill with cowpox instead, a zoonotic disease ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an entry in Wikipedia, it is highly relevant today. Understanding the ...

Nearly a hundred and seventy-one years ago "matter was taken from a sore on the hand of a dairymaid" by Dr. Edward Jenner, who then inoculated it onto the arm of a healthy eight-year-old boy, James ...

Late in the 18th century, in Gloucestershire, England, Jenner noticed that milkmaids who suffered from cowpox lesions upon their hands were immune to smallpox.