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 ...

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

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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 ...

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In 1798, an British doctor, Edward Jenner, developed a vaccine. In 1966, the World Health Organisation began a global vaccination campaign to wipe out smallpox for good. The last-ever case was ...