Early vaccines may be listed by the first year of development or testing, but later entries usually show the year the vaccine finished trials and became available on the market. Although vaccines exist for the diseases listed below, only smallpox has been eliminated worldwide.

The first vaccine was born. For almost eighty years, cowpox vaccination against smallpox remained the only vaccine in use around the world. Science and technology were not yet there to create vaccines against other disease-causing organisms, though many tried.

Dr Edward Jenner created the world's first successful vaccine. He found out that people infected with cowpox were immune to smallpox. In May 1796, English physician Edward Jenner expands on this discovery and inoculates 8-year-old James Phipps with matter collected from a cowpox sore on the hand of a milkmaid.

2025年3月28日 · FDA licensed the first vaccine developed to prevent cervical cancer (Gardasil by Merck & Co.), precancerous genital lesions, and genital warts due to human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6, 11, 16, and 18.

2020年9月29日 · Smallpox used to kill millions. But a chance discovery led to the first vaccine, and a transformation in human health.

2025年3月4日 · British physician Edward Jenner is credited with introducing the world's first vaccine in 1796 to protect against smallpox using the cowpox virus (vaccinia).

2024年1月25日 · Find dates of when vaccines first became available. This table can only tell you whether the vaccine was available, but cannot confirm whether you personally had the vaccine since not everyone in the population was immunized.

2020年5月8日 · With the race to find a COVID-19 in full swing, now is a good time to look back on history to learn about how the very first vaccines were created. To understand the timeline, we will start with one of the first natural diseases known to humans, smallpox, called the …

Vaccines have a history that started late in the 18th century. From the late 19th century, vaccines could be developed in the laboratory. However, in the 20th century, it became possible to develop vaccines based on immunologic markers. In the 21st ...

The first two vaccines widely approved were mRNA vaccines, which teach the immune system to create proteins specifically to fight COVID-19. Created in under a year, the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were the quickest to ever be finished and approved.