The world's first vaccination clinic will soon reopen to the public following major restoration work. Set in the former ...
Often called the Speckled monster, Smallpox was one of the most terrifying diseases known to humanity. In 18th-century Europe ...
The infectious disease of smallpox ran rampant for centuries, killing millions – until an experiment on the eight-year-old ...
His method was safer than variolation because it used a related but far less dangerous virus. He called the procedure vaccination, from vacca, the Latin word for cow. Jenner’s work, published in 1798, ...
The Temple of Vaccinia in Berkeley, recognised as the world’s first vaccination clinic, will open to the public on Sunday, ...
I was down in Gloucestershire recently and visited Dr Edward Jenner’s home in the historic market town of Berkeley. It is ...