Vaccine History

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Vaccines have saved countless lives, preventing morbidity and mortality caused by disease. While, in the past 50 years, significant progress has been made in the development of vaccines, the practice of immunization dates back hundreds of years through the use of various techniques, including the work of Edward Jenner, who introduced the vaccine against smallpox.

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