Vaccines have been a cornerstone of that effort for centuries, safeguarding generations against preventable diseases—right ...

ON January 26, 1823, Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of protective vaccination against smallpox, died in his home at Berkeley—a village of Gloucestershire—where he had lived long and ...

The concept of vaccines first emerged in the 18th century when Dr. Edward Jenner purposely gave a young boy cowpox. Jenner, subsequently, exposed the boy to smallpox. Interestingly, the boy did not ...

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, ...

And regular polling carried out by YouGov suggests adults are increasingly likely to say that vaccines have harmful side ...

Dr. Bill Foege ... we have was developed by Edward Jenner in 1796. The first anti-vax group developed in 1796. This is an old, old problem. Because the smallpox vaccine was taken from cowpox ...

Dr Helen Wall, a GP from Bolton ... debate going back to the dawn of vaccination in 1796 when Edward Jenner created the smallpox vaccine. In the 1890s huge crowds protested in Leicester against ...

In 1798—the year that the Rev. Thomas Malthus “proved” that the earth’s capacity to produce food was no match for man’s capacity to reproduce —Britain’s Dr. Edward Jenner discovered ...