The simplified, somewhat apocryphal story I was taught about the origins of vaccines is this one: In 1796, at the height of the smallpox epidemic, physician Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who ...

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 ...

The advent of vaccinations came when a scientist, by the name of Edward Jenner, discovered that an individual exposed to a particular disease is protected from a close variation of another. At the ...