by Helga Osinski Sr.
Published 2 years ago
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Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13 year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox
cowpox
Cowpox is an infectious disease caused by the cowpox virus (CPXV). It presents with large blisters in the skin, a fever and swollen glands, historically typically following contact with an infected cow, though in the last several decades more often (though overall rarely) from infected cats.
), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox. In 1798, the first smallpox vaccine
smallpox vaccine
In 1796, the British doctor Edward Jenner demonstrated that an infection with the relatively mild cowpox virus conferred immunity against the deadly smallpox virus. Cowpox served as a natural vaccine until the modern smallpox vaccine emerged in the 20th century.
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• 1921 – First vaccine for tuberculosis by Albert Calmette • 1923 – First vaccine for diphtheria by Gaston Ramon, Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō • 1924 – First vaccine for scarlet fever by George F. Dick and Gladys Dick
18th century
• 1796 – Edward Jenner develops and documents first vaccine for smallpox.
19th century
• 1880 – First vaccine for cholera by Louis Pasteur • 1885 – First vaccine for rabies by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux • 1890 – First vaccine for tetanus (serum antitoxin) by Emil von Behring • 1896 – First vaccine for typhoid fever by Almroth Edward Wright, Richard Pfeiffer, and Wilhelm Kolle
21st century
• 2000 – First pneumococcal conjugate vaccine approved in the US (PCV7 or Prevnar) • 2003 – First nasal influenza vaccine approved in U.S. (FluMist) • 2003 – First vaccine for Argentine hemorrhagic fever.
• Timeline of global health • History of smallpox • List of diseases eliminated from the United States
Sources
1. ^ Vaccine Preventable Deaths and the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, 2006--2015, MMWR, CDC, 12 May 2006 2. ^ "Jenner's Breakthrough". The History of Vaccines. Philadelphia: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020. 3. ^ Pasteur, L (1885). "Nota sobre la profilaxis del cólera por medio de inyecciones hipodérmicas de cultivo puro del bacilo virgula". El Siglo Med (in Spanish). 32: 480.
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