Vaccination campaigns have nearly eradicated some of the most deadly and transmissible diseases. In a rising tide of vaccine ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus, but a preparation of vaccinia (a form of cowpox) virus. In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British physician, demonstrated that infection caused by ...

Smallpox has a fearsome reputation, having killed more people in history than any other infectious disease. It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an ...

Smallpox is caused by variola virus ... Much of the credit for inoculation though is given to a British physician named Edward Jenner. Late in the 18th century, in Gloucestershire, England ...

Edward Jenner develops the first vaccine against smallpox in 1796. He found that by inoculating people with cowpox, a similar virus that only causes mild illness, they were largely immune to the ...

G C' is Edward Jenner's (1749-1823) nephew, George Charles Jenner. For centuries, smallpox was greatly feared. A third of people who contracted the disease died of it, and the survivors were often ...

His name? Edward Jenner. For over three thousand years, smallpox devasted mankind. In 18th century Europe, this ‘speckled monster’ killed roughly 400,000 people every year, and for centuries ...

Here is a closer look. At one point in history, smallpox was “one of the most devastating diseases to humanity.” With the first cases dating as early as 1350 BCE, the disease caused millions of deaths ...

The word vaccine is derived from the latin word vacca, meaning cow, and relates back to vaccine history when Edward Jenner developed a smallpox vaccine in the late 1700s made from cowpox.

In this issue, we explore the forgotten patients in global healthcare settings – the marginalised groups who fall through the ...