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Year Landmark
1000 Chinese practising variolation
1545 Smallpox epidemic in India
1578 Whooping cough epidemic in Paris
1625 Early smallpox in North America
1633 Colonial epidemic of smallpox in Massachusetts
1661 Kangxi Emperor gives royal support for inoculation.
1676 Thomas Sydenham documents Measles infection
1676 "The Indian Plague" in Iroquois documented by Louis de Buade de Frontenac
1694 Queen Mary II dies of smallpox on 28 December.
1699 Yellow Fever outbreak in the American Colonies.
1718 Lady Mary Montagu had her 6-year-old son variolated in Constantinople by Dr. Charles Maitland
1721 Lady Mary Montagu had her 2-year-old daughter variolated in England by Dr. Charles Maitland
1736 Benjamin Franklin's 4-year-old son dies of smallpox.
1740 Friedrich Hoffmann gives first description of rubella
1757 Francis Home demonstrates infectious nature of measles
1798 Edward Jenner publishes his account of the effects of his smallpox vaccine
1800 Benjamin Waterhouse brings smallpox vaccination to United States
1803 - 1806 The Balmis expedition brings smallpox vaccination the Spanish colonies in the Americas and the Philippines.
1817 Cholera pandemic begins
1817 Panum studies epidemiology of measles in Faroe Islands
1854 Filippo Pacini isolates Vibrio cholerae
1874 A compulsory smallpox vaccination and revaccination law goes into effect in Germany[1]
1880 Louis Pasteur develops attenuated fowl cholera vaccine
1881 Louis Pasteur's public trial of anthrax vaccine at Pouilly le Fort
1881 Louis Pasteur and George Sternberg independently discover Pneumococcus
1882 Koch isolates Mycobacterium tuberculosis
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully prevents rabies in Joseph Meister by post-exposure vaccination
1888 Institut Pasteur inaugurated on 14 November
1890 Shibasaburo Kitasato and Emil von Behring immunize guinea pigs with heat-treated diphtheria toxin
1892 Pfeiffer discovers Pfeiffer influenza bacillus
1894 First major documented polio outbreak in the United States occurs in Rutland County, Vermont
1896 Koch reports discovery of Cholera vibrio unaware of Filippo Pacini's work
1898 English Vaccination Act allows exemption from smallpox vaccination on grounds of conscience
1899 Yellow fever epidemics among Panama Canal workers, resulting in transfer of project rights from France to United States
1900 Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed discovers that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes after studying it in Cuba
1906 Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou isolate Bordetella pertussis
1908 Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper discover poliovirus
1924 BCG is introduced as live tuberculosis vaccine
1935 Max Theiler develops live attenuated 17D yellow fever vaccine
1945 Chick embryo allantoic fluid-derived influenza vaccine is developed
1949 John Enders cultivates poliovirus in tissue culture
1955 Jonas Salk's injectable inactivated polio vaccine licensed for general use[2]
1960 Trials of Albert Sabin's oral live attenuated polio vaccine begin[3]
1960–1969 Live attenuated vaccines developed for Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
1974–1984 Polysaccharide vaccines for Meningococcus (A, C, Y, and W-135), Pneumococcus, and Hemophilus are developed
1980 World Health Organization declares global eradication of smallpox
1981 Hepatitis B vaccine is licensed
1983 Harald zur Hausen demonstrates that cervical cancer is induced by human papillomavirus
1983 Hemophilus influenzae carbohydrate-protein conjugate is developed
1986 Yeast-derived recombinant hepatitis B vaccine is licensed
1989 Concepción Campa and her team develops the first anti Neisseria meningitidis type B vaccine
1991 Dukoral a cholera vaccine was developed and licensed in Sweden
1994 Jacinto Convit develops a leishmaniasis vaccine based on BCG vaccine
1994 Polio declared eliminated from Americas
2002 Polio declared eliminated from Europe
2006 First HPV vaccine is licensed
2014 Polio declared eliminated from India[4]

References

  1. ^ "German Vaccination Law". Internet Archive. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. ^ "SALK poliomyelitis vaccine information". J Natl Med Assoc. 47 (3): 183–4. May 1955. PMC 2617555. PMID 14368292.
  3. ^ Payne AM (1960). "Oral immunization against poliomyelitis". Bull. World Health Organ. 23 (6): 695–703. PMC 2555376. PMID 20604072.
  4. ^ "UNICEF India - Health - Polio Eradication".

Shingles vaccine

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Our article Zoster vaccine indicates a vaccine against shingles and related complications has been in widespread use for the past few years. Does this justify an entry regarding a shingles vaccine? Dolphin (t) 13:28, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]