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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
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The first serum for foot and mouth disease was created.
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Scientists were making vaccines for human use.
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The technique used to cultivate viruses in the eggs of chickens was first used in 1933.
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Influenza and typhus vaccines were first introduced in the late 1930%u2019s.
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Scientists developed the first triple-immunization vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP).
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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.
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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.
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Small pox was eliminated worldwide.
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Polio was eliminated in the United States.
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Routine smallpox vaccines were no longer distributed.
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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.
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The first chicken pox vaccine was licensed and the Hep A vaccine was available for use in the United States.
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Advances in whooping cough vaccine and combined vaccines continued through the end of the decade.