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

Young Jenner faced about a 2% chance of dying of smallpox thanks to his variolation. That's pretty horrifying compared with the safety standards of modern vaccines, but it offered better odds than ...

Dr. Edward Jenner, an English country physician, ... Smallpox, which causes flu-like symptoms, fever, and raised bumps to appear on the face and body, is particularly noxious.

THE CREATION OF THE SMALLPOX VACCINE. The story of how Dr Jenner created the vaccine is fascinating. According to Gower, we need to look at what was happening in the 1500s when people were ...

Sixteenth century Aztec drawing of smallpox victims. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. One of the most celebrated medical anniversaries concerns a country doctor named Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who ...

Edward Jenner figured out the connection between smallpox and humans from a milkmaid’s blistered hands. But it turns out cows aren’t actually the key to smallpox immunity.

Before Jenner At least five doctors had carried out research into vaccination before Jenner. During a smallpox epidemic in 1774, English farmer Benjamin Jesty used the cowpox virus to successfully ...

Jenner routinely performed variolation on his patients, and had been variolated himself. He took advantage of this procedure to demonstrate that vaccination really did protect from smallpox – an ...

Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine saved countless lives. Just as quickly as doctors heralded Edward Jenner’s revolutionary 1796 discovery that the deadly smallpox virus could be prevented with a ...

The first vaccine created by Edward Jenner in the late 18th century helped control disease transmission and, two centuries later, eliminate smallpox worldwide, thanks to a global eradication ...

It has been called the birthplace of modern vaccination. More than 220 years ago, the residents of an English village lined up outside a small wooden hut to have their arms scratched with a lancet … ...

The best-known version of the smallpox-vaccine story goes like this: In 1796, the British doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids exposed to a mild disease called cowpox were unusually ...