The mandate, passed after physician Benjamin Waterhouse demonstrated the efficacy of the smallpox vaccine, kicked off 200 years of legal battles.

Just as quickly as doctors heralded Edward Jenner’s revolutionary 1796 discovery that the deadly smallpox virus could be prevented with a cowpox vaccine, some Brits met the news with a ...

As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.

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 ...

A long-standing mystery. For more than two centuries, the central element of this story — that cowpox was the source of Jenner’s smallpox vaccine — has remained unchallenged, at least in ...

A century later, in the 1790s, in England, Edward Jenner invented the cowpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine, an advancement that would transform how smallpox was treated worldwide.

People line up in Paris to receive their smallpox vaccine in 1942. People line up in Paris to receive their smallpox vaccine in 1942. LAPI/Roger Viollet/Getty Images The world's very first vaccine ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

Though Edward Jenner had discovered in 1797 that pus from a cow’s cowpox blisters could be used as a vaccine, the majority of the world had no access to the inoculation. Cowpox was such a local ...

The piece, dated Oct. 11, points to monkeypox, smallpox and cowpox being listed on the WHO’s VigiAccess, opens new tab website under the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as evidence that the WHO ...

Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also has. This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine.

Many Mississippi Territory settlers were saved from smallpox in the early 19th century because of actions taken by William C. C. Claiborne.