The concept of vaccines first emerged in the 18th century when Dr. Edward Jenner purposely gave a young boy cowpox. Jenner, ...

Chris Whitty said Edward Jenner "contributed extraordinarily to vaccine technology" Mr Jenner was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, in 1749, and he became an English doctor and scientist who ...

A museum in the former home of the smallpox vaccination pioneer Dr Edward Jenner has been saved from closure. Last September the museum in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, announced it was under threat ...

It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796. Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox ...