IP Vaccines

By jocawley
  • Oct 20, 1100

    First Inoculation of Smallpox

    As far back at the Twelfth Century, China reports the inoculation of smallpox scabs into people susceptible to the disease.

  • British Edward Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine

    Great Britain%u2019s Edward Jenner injected a patient with cowpox to protect him again smallpox. From this procedure, the term %u201Cvaccination%u201D was first used, taking the Latin root %u201Cvacca%u201D which means cow.

  • World's First Bacterial Vaccine

    By 1870, the name Louis Pasteur becomes synonymous with vaccines after he created the world%u2019s first bacterial vaccine. Within 15 years, he not only created the first viral vaccine (for rabies), but also vaccinated the first child against the disease.

  • The First Nobel Prize in Medicine

    In 1901, the first Nobel Prize in Medicine was given to Emil von Behring for his research and work on the diphtheria antitoxin.

  • The tetanus toxoid was developed

  • The first serum for foot and mouth disease was created.

  • Scientists were making vaccines for human use.

  • The technique used to cultivate viruses in the eggs of chickens was first used in 1933.

  • Influenza and typhus vaccines were first introduced in the late 1930%u2019s.

  • Scientists developed the first triple-immunization vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP).

  • First breakthrough in Polio vaccine.

    Polio was a national concern due in part by the disease affecting President Franklin D. Roosevelt. By 1949, researchers were able to isolate the poliovirus in human cells.

  • Jonas Salk introduced the first injectable polio vaccine.

  • Major developments during the 1960's and 1970's.

    The 1960%u2019s and 1970%u2019s brought forth huge advances in vaccines: measles, mumps, anthrax and smallpox.

  • Albert Sabin licensed the first oral polio vaccine.

  • Small pox was eliminated worldwide.

  • Polio was eliminated in the United States.

  • Routine smallpox vaccines were no longer distributed.

  • Vaccines in the 1980's

    The 1980%u2019s commercialized polysaccharide vaccine for meningococcal disease, and licensed the first polysaccharide Hib vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine for Hep B (using DNA technology) and developed the first inactivated Hep A vaccine.

  • The western hemisphere was declared polio free.

  • The first chicken pox vaccine was licensed and the Hep A vaccine was available for use in the United States.

  • Advances in whooping cough vaccine and combined vaccines continued through the end of the decade.