Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS reflects the rising power of an anti-vaccination movement more than 100 years ...

Smallpox vaccines contains cowpox viruses but not the bacteria and other impurities found in the fluid collected from such pustules. To make the vaccine, therefore, you'll need to separate the ...

And it was the job of the adults to slowly infect the children, one at a time, with cowpox. They were using Jenner’s new ...

It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796. Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox ...

A lot of people are staunchly pro-vaccines, some are militant anti-vaxxers and much of the population is wondering what all the fuss is about. If you already have a firm viewpoint on the question of ...

Twenty years later, in 1796, Edward Jenner determined that inoculation with cowpox, a far milder virus, conferred equally powerful immunity against smallpox. He named the procedure “vaccination ...

The advent of vaccinations came when a scientist, by the name of Edward Jenner, discovered that an individual exposed to a ...

Prioritising personal whims over tested science, ignoring vaccine-preventable diseases, and devaluing international ...

Chinese method of inoculation by delivering small doses of disease is employed. Dr.Tilli Tansey explains Read her words 1796 British doctor, Edward Jenner injects James Phipps with cowpox ...

And it was the job of the adults to slowly infect the children, one at a time, with cowpox. They were using Jenner’s new vaccine, but because there was no refrigeration to keep samples alive on ...