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

Jenner was among five individuals in England and Germany in the 1770s who were interested in the use of material from cowpox and how it might provide immunity.

As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.

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

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 ...

Jenner inoculated 8 year old James Phipps with pus from the cowpox blisters of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from Blossom the cow. Phipps suffered a fever, but no other symptoms.

1796: Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox. After the lad recovers from the infection, Jenner inoculates him with smallpox, but the boy remains healthy. Vaccination is born. Before Jenner ...

The observation that milkmaids are frequently infected with cowpox but rarely catch smallpox is generally credited to the English doctor Edward Jenner. Although Jenner might not have been the ...

As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid brag that having cowpox made her immune to smallpox. And years later, as a doctor, he drew matter from a cowpox postule on the arm of milkmaid ...

Dr. Edward Jenner's House, Museum and Garden in Berkeley, England, March 9, 2021. The site where Jenner first inoculated people against smallpox has struggled in the coronavirus lockdowns, one of ...

The observation that milkmaids are frequently infected with cowpox but rarely catch smallpox is generally credited to the English doctor Edward Jenner. Although Jenner might not have been the ...

As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.