Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late ... More than 200 years ago, physician Edward Jenner made a crucial-discovery which led to the first vaccine. He found that milkmaids who developed ...

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 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 ...