Smallpox Vaccine
InventorEdward Jenner
Year1796
CategoryMedicine
OriginEngland
About Smallpox Vaccine
Jenners vaccine was the worlds first vaccine. Smallpox killed an estimated 300 million people in the 20th century alone. The WHO declared it eradicated in 1980, the only human disease ever eliminated. The last natural case was in Somalia in 1977.
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