Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case ...

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 ...

Ever since Edward Jenner discovered the smallpox vaccine two centuries ago, immunization efforts have almost exclusively focused on activating the immune system. But when it comes to multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...