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Jan 1, 1000
First recorded vaccination
Depicted on a ancient chinese diagram was a early form of innoculation for smallpox in which scabs from an infected individual would be scraped off of ground up and placed on a healthy person. -
The birth of a great man
Edward Jenner was born on this day. -
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Jenners Life
Jenners Life -
Jenners Break Through
Jenner tested his hypothesis that cowpox and smallpox were a related disease, that if someone were infected by cowpox they would grow an immunity to smallpox. -
A discovery
Edward Jenner now a doctor heard tale of a milk maid who belived that she had become immune to small pox due to her exposure to Cow pox a common disease that is transmitted through pustules on the cows themselves. -
Pastuer is born
Louis Pasteur was born in france. -
Jenner Dies
Jenners life is ended by a stroke. -
Rabies vaccine
After failing to produce a viable vaccine for rabies in monkeys Pasture turned to rabbits. Taking the tissue from the spinal column and drying it to weaken the virus enough to a form a viable vaccine. -
Pasturization
Through his studies in fermentation Pasture discovered if there is a absence of microorganisms things will not ferment or rot. -
Anthrax investigations
During the midst of an epidemic that is killing livestock Pasteur suggested that microrganisms had a role to play with the sickness of the animals. Many of his colleagues rejected the idea of that and only a handful adopted his idea. -
First laboratory vaccine was created
Louis Pasteur created the first laboratory vaccine for Chicken Colora. -
A success
Pasture announced to the French Academy of Science that his vaccine had protected a dog from the deadly rabies virus. -
Pasture sends his rabies vaccine results
Pasture presented the results of his new rabies vaccine on humans. Out of 350 people only one died to the disease most likely due to the fact that the treatment was started too late. -
Hilleman is born
Maurice Hilleman is born. -
Vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis
Hillman working at E.R Squibb and sons developed a vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis to protect American troops during the pacific theater of operations of WWII. -
Salk Polio Vaccines
At the University of Pittsberg Jonas salk developed a method of cultivating the Polio Virus in monkey kidneys, leading to the development of a viable vaccine for Polio. -
Polio Inoculation suspended
The vaccine was responsible for the deaths of 11 and the hundreds that were paralyzed. Though the cause of the disaster was never proven, it is likely that certain production methods (which, it turns out, did not follow Salk’s instructions) resulted in a failure to completely kill the Type 1 (Mahoney) poliovirus in the vaccine. -
Sabins Vaccine for Polio
In 1960 Albert Sabins live poliovirus vaccine was reccomended by the Surgion general to be licensed because it protected agains poliovirus 1 and later 2 and 3 -
Polio Eradicated
On August 20, 1994, the Pan American Health Organization had reported that three years had passed since the last polio report. -
Group B Meningococcal Vaccine Approved
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The history of vaccintion
