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Invention of vaccines
Dr Edward Jenner created the world's first working vaccine for smallpox -
First anti vaxxers
Subsequent to the invention of vaccines, the first Anti vaxxers started objecting to them for various reasons, like how you have to cut open someone's body to give them the vaccine -
Time context- Thomas Jefferson is elected president of the USA
Thomas Jefferson is elected president by the House of Representatives, and Aaron Burr becomes vice president -
Vaccination act
The Vaccination Act of 1853 made vaccination compulsory for all infants in the first three months of life and made defaulting parents liable to a fine or imprisonment. -
Invention of the Tetanus shot
This was discovered by a group of German scientists under the leadership of Emil von Behring in 1890. -
Invention of the Polio Vaccine
The first successful polio vaccines, the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and the oral polio vaccine (OPV), were developed in the 1950s by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin -
WHO Intensified global smallpox eradication campaign
Widespread immunization and surveillance are some things the WHO conducted around the world for a decade and a half. -
Time Perspective- Moon landing
"One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind."-Neil Armstrong -
Invention of the MMR vaccine
The MMR vaccine, a combined vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella, was developed by Dr. Maurice Hilleman in 1971 -
Smallpox is eradicated
The WHO officially declared smallpox extinct, Hooray!!! -
A paper is published that says that there is a link between autism and vaccination
Dr. Wakefield described 12 children, eight had autism. All of these children had intestinal complaints and developed autism within one month of receiving MMR. This article is fundamentally flawed though, because they say the symptoms cause autism, but they were observed after being diagnosed. -
Approval of the HPV Vaccine
The HPV vaccine was invented by Professor Ian Frazer and his late colleague Dr. Jian Zhou at the University of Queensland -
Covid starts
Covid starts with a small thumb sized bat.