Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

Vaccination has protected humans from an ever-lengthening list of infectious diseases: polio, yellow fever, diphtheria, ...

Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796, pioneering immunization practices. Louis Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and introduced pasteurization.

Also in Slate: Jonas Salk didn’t patent the polio vaccine, but Google Doodles—like today’s on Salk—are patented. On April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent ...

Edward Jenner received a wealth of titles and honors for his achievment. The British Parliament awarded him £10,000 —a colossal sum for the time—later supplemented with an additional £20,000.

The first vaccine was developed by English surgeon Edward Jenner in 1796, to inoculate against smallpox, a leading cause of death in the 18th century that left many survivors permanently disfigured.

On May 14, 1796, Englishman Edward Jenner tested vaccination on a human subject. Building on conventional wisdom, Jenner introduced vaccination against smallpox, a disease that has now been ...

The Jenner in question is none other than Edward Jenner, who in the late 18th century created the world’s first vaccine from cowpox blisters, an innovation that would ultimately lead to the ...