How Safe Are Vaccines? May 22, 2008
But ever since Edward Jenner, a country doctor in England, inoculated his son and a handful of other children against smallpox in 1796 by exposing them to cowpox pus, things have been tougher on humans' most unwelcome intruders. In the past century, vaccines against diphtheria, polio, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella, not to mention the more recent additions of hepatitis B and chicken pox, have wired humans with powerful immune sentries to ward off uninvited invasions. (Time.com)
Infotainment May 14, 2008
1796 The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner. 1804 William Clark set off the famous expedition from. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
3000 children were given unlicensed anti-psychotic drugs despite ... Apr 8, 2008
The first smallpox vacine was tested on a child, but Edward Jenner would be struck off if he did such a thing today. Children are different to adults they are still growing and have less hormone activity, yet the government thinks it is safe to give teenage girls the pill. (Times Online)
Book roundup: Mysteries/ thrillers Dec 27, 2007
In this debut novel, forensic pathologist Edward Jenner is drawn into a hunt for a serial killer whose trademarks include decapitations and bizarre displays of his victims. The final showdown, in an abandoned building in Brooklyn, is a nail-biting masterpiece. (USA Today -- Life)
Poxvirus' Ability To Hide From The Immune System May Aid Vaccine Design Nov 20, 2007
Outbreaks of cowpox, which Edward Jenner used to demonstrate the concept of vaccination in the late 1700s, still occur. In addition, multiple outbreaks of the monkeypox virus, which can cause smallpox-like disease in humans, have occurred in Africa and the United States in the past decade. (Science Daily)
Vaccines cut deaths for kids to new lows Nov 15, 2007
It was in 1796 when Dr. Edward Jenner first vaccinated a boy against smallpox by pricking his arms with pus taken from the sores of a milkmaid with cowpox, a closely related but mild disease. Vaccines against whooping cough were introduced in 1914, against diphtheria in 1928, against tetanus in 1933, and so on, up to the latest introduction, seven years ago, of the pneumococcal vaccine. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Playing God on 'The Colbert Report' Nov 14, 2007
Thanks to the ingenuity of brilliant men from Edward Jenner to Adel Mahmoud, most of us go through life happily immune to diseases like smallpox, measles, and polio. But, if you were to step into a 19th century church, you'd hear a very different story. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Hardly 'junk' science: Royal Society examines climate change Oct 23, 2007
Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Christian Huygens, Lord Kelvin, Thomas Huxley, Edward Jenner, William Herschel, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Fred Hoyle, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and so on. These are not "junk" scientists. (Vancouver Sun)
NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet: October 1, 2007 Issue (on newsstands Monday, Sept. 24). Sep 24, 2007
General Editor Mary Carmichael profiles four people who, 211 years after Edward Jenner immunized his first patient, are working to bring lifesaving vaccines to children around the world in developing countries, where immunization is still stuck in the 18th century. Working to wipe out the big global killers -- HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, which together take 6 million lives each year -- is a doctor who's making it easier to do high-tech science in low-tech environments; a biologist who has... (PR Newswire)
NEWSWEEK International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, Oct. 1, 2007 Issue Sep 24, 2007
General Editor Mary Carmichael reports that 211 years after Edward Jenner immunized his first patient, the idea behind vaccines has not changed much and the doctors leading the way in working to wipe out the world's worst diseases are just as optimistic as he was. Carmichael focuses on four individuals who are making a difference, including a doctor who's making it easier to do high-tech science in low-tech environments; a biologist who has spent 23 years failing to defeat HIV but is still... (PR Newswire)
Giving Globally: How to Heal the World Sep 23, 2007
Oct. 1, 2007 issue - In medicine there are three kinds of good ideas: the obvious ones, the not-so-obvious ones and the sort that Dr. Edward Jenner came up with in 1796. He had heard from his neighbors in rural Gloucestershire, England, that people who caught cowpox didn't get the more-lethal smallpox very often, and he suspected the first disease was triggering the body's defenses against the second. (MSNBC -- Health)
Cursed, Yet Blessed Jun 28, 2007
In fact, the famous vaccine developed by England's Edward Jenner in 1796 resulted from his observation that milkmaids who had gone through bouts of cowpox enjoyed natural protection against the much deadlier smallpox. Plummer hopes his HIV-free prostitutes can play the same role today that Jenner's clear-skinned milkmaids did nearly two centuries ago. (Time.com)
Vaccinations Not Immune From Critics Apr 2, 2007
In 1796, British country doctor Edward Jenner confirmed that milkmaids, exposed to a much milder cowpox virus, were immune to smallpox. Millions of people finally dared to be vaccinated with Jenner's cowpox serum. (CBS News)
Smallpox shot infects soldier's toddler son Mar 17, 2007
The vaccinia virus in modern smallpox vaccines is closely related to an older form of vaccinia called cowpox, the disease English doctor Edward Jenner used in the late 1700s to develop early methods of vaccination. Jenner relied on the observation that milkmaids who had cowpox seemed to be protected from later smallpox infection. (FOX59, IN)
more » Jan 9, 2007
More than two hundred years ago, Edward Jenner, a country physician practicing in England, noted that milkmaids rarely suffered from smallpox, a disease that was known to kill up to 40 percent of those who contracted it. The milkmaids often did get cowpox, a related but far less serious disease, and those who did, never became ill with smallpox. (Searcy Daily Citizen, AR)
