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First vaccinations
Edward Jenner invented a method to protect people against the smallpox virus, his method involved taking a sample of material from a blister of someone infected with cowpox and inculcating it into another person's skin. This is also known as arm-to-arm inoculation(1). -
Pertussis
In the early 20th century routinely recommended vaccines were developed(2).
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory disease. Its characteristics are uncontrollable and violent coughing which most often makes it hard to breathe(3). -
Diphtheria
Diphtheria is a serious infection caused by strains of bacteria called Corynebacterium diphtheria that create toxin, or poison. It can lead to difficulty breathing, heart failure, paralysis, and even death(4). -
Tetanus
Tetanus, or lockjaw, is an infection caused by the bacteria Clostridium tetani. When the bacteria invades the body it produces a poison (toxin) that causes painful muscle contractions(5).
It often causes a person's neck and jaw muscles to lock making it hard to open their mouth or swallow(6). -
Large-scale vacination production
By the late 1940s, scientific knowledge had grown to make large-scale vaccine production possible. Because of this disease control efforts could seriously begin(7). -
DTP vaccine
Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis were all combined into one vaccine called DTP in 1948, it protects against all 3 viruses(8). -
Polio Vaccine
The polio vaccine was one everyone was waiting for, parents were scared of polio which had manifested into an epidemic each summer. They would keep their children away from pools and would even send them to stay with relatives in other countries(9). Polio is caused by the poliovirus which enters the body through the mouth, it spreads by contact through feces, exposure to phlegm, or mucus from an infected person(10).
The polio vaccine was licensed in1955 and the creator Jonas Salk became a hero. -
vaccines of the 1960s
The measles vaccine was developed in 1963 and then by the end of the 1960s vaccines to protect against mumps and rubella. The mumps vaccine was developed in 1967 and rubella in 1969. Later the measles, mumps, and rubella were combined into the MMR vaccine in 1971. -
vaccination development
This photograph was taken inside the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) lab, the woman is inoculating 10-day-old chicken eggs with specimens containing the influenza virus(11). -
Vaccination of women by person in a lab coat
The image is of a woman receiving a vaccination from an assumed doctor. The photograph was taken after the swine flu pandemic of 1918 and during the mass vaccination program of 1976 after people in New Jersey came down with an influenzalike illness similar to the strain believed to have been the cause of the swine flu pandemic (12). It was taken to inspire the reception of the vaccine, which at the time were considered axiomatic good and longed-for salvation in the form of a syringe(13). -
Antibodies testing on a male
This image is of a man having his blood drawn for an antibody test of swine flu A virus by Dr. Gary Noble. Antibody tests, more scientifically know as serology tests, look for proteins made as a response to infection by the body. The antibodies being tested for are also a result of what your body develops in response to vaccination as well as the disease (14). -
Infant receiving a vaccination
An infant is pictured by James Gathany receiving a vaccination while on their mother's lap. This image is to show that vaccinations are safe and important for the continued health of children. Vaccinations are to stimulate your immune system to produce antibodies as if you were exposed to the disease(15). Vaccinations contain the same germs that cause diseases but they have either been killed or weakened to the point they don't make you sick(16). -
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