Under the new leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is expected to look into a long-debunked connection between ...

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

Its prevalence has fallen by more than 99 percent due to vaccinations, along with a whole host of other diseases such as pertussis (whooping cough), mumps and rubella. Keep up with developments ...

According to lore, Jenner was a country doctor-albeit a well-educated one ... The rest, as they say, is history: James was fine. A smallpox vaccine-and the field of vaccinology-was launched. Today, ...

It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation ... He called his new procedure vaccination, after vacca, which is Latin for cow. A vaccine works ...

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 ...

Smallpox, cholera, typhus and tuberculosis wiped out entire cities. Around 1800, Edward Jenner created an effective vaccine against smallpox, ushering in a new age. By the mid-20th century ...

Image caption, A bust of Edward Jenner, the so-called ‘father of vaccination’, located at the University of Oxford institute named in his honour BBC Bitesize spoke to Dr Sean Elias ...

A section of cow horn, inscribed 'G C Jenner, 1825'; possibly a relic of a cow called 'Blossom' - the source of the first vaccination fluid. 'G C' is Edward Jenner's (1749-1823) nephew ...

Our online exhibition shows objects from key moments in the history of vaccination. Ranging from the initial vaccine discovery to the impact on public health and disease prevention, it also charts the ...

A section of cow horn, inscribed 'G C Jenner, 1825'; possibly a relic of a cow called 'Blossom' - the source of the first vaccination fluid. 'G C' is Edward Jenner's (1749-1823) nephew ...