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 ...

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 ...

Of all the diseases ever suffered by humans, smallpox ... The story of humankind's triumph over the disease gained momentum with the experiments of an English country doctor, Edward Jenner.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...