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 ...

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

I didn't either. Dr. Edward Jenner, an English country physician, officially legitimized and introduced the word "vaccination" into the scientific literature in the late 1700s.

But why? Edward Jenner was up against sceptics, professional jealousy and religion. Today, rumours still persist, the latest being that the Oxford Covid vaccine could turn your child into a chimp ...

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 ...

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

But Jenner could not have anticipated where his work would lead. Immunization by cowpox held sway until the 19th century, when a more modern live-virus vaccine was developed using the lymph of calves.

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

A plaque dedicated to vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner has been unveiled to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death. It stands outside The Old School, on Park Lane, Cirencester, where he was a ...

Smallpox vaccination instruments and techniques on display at Dr. Edward Jenner's House, Museum and Garden in Berkeley, England, March 9, 2021.

The home of Dr. Edward Jenner in Berkeley, England, is now a museum that tells the story of his pioneering vaccination efforts against smallpox. Mary Turner for The New York Times ...