blumberg invented the first vaccine for hepatitis b.
blumberg invented the first vaccine for hepatitis b.
who invented the first vaccine for hepatitis b?
blumberg
in 1976, blumberg had won the nobel prize in physiology or medicine for his work on hepatitis b (sharing it with daniel carleton gajdusek for his work on kuru). in 2002, blumberg published a book, "hepatitis b: the hunt for a killer virus". in the book, according to paul a. offit—hilleman's biographer and an accomplished vaccinologist himself—blumberg... ... claimed that the hepatitis b vaccine was his invention. maurice hilleman's name is mentioned once... blumberg failed to mention that it was hilleman who had figured out how to inactivate hepatitis b virus, how to kill all other possible contaminating viruses, how to completely remove every other protein found in human blood, and how to do all of this while retaining the structural integrity of the surface protein. blumberg had identified australia antigen, an important first step. but all of the other steps—the ones critical to making a vaccine—belonged to hilleman. later, hilleman recalled, "i think that [blumberg] deserves a lot of credit, but he doesn't want to give credit to the other guy."
hepatitis b vaccine
bullet::::- 1977 first vaccine for pneumonia ("streptococcus pneumoniae")









































bullet::::- 1978 first vaccine for meningitis ("neisseria meningitidis")









































bullet::::- 1980 smallpox declared eradicated worldwide due to vaccination efforts









































bullet::::- 1981 first vaccine for hepatitis b (first vaccine to target a cause of cancer)









































bullet::::- 1985 first vaccine for "haemophilus influenzae" type b (hib)









































bullet::::- 1989 first vaccine for q fever









































bullet::::- 1992 first vaccine for hepatitis a









































bullet::::- 1998 first vaccine for lyme disease









































bullet::::- 1998 first vaccine for rotavirus









































section::::21st century.









































bullet::::- 2003 first nasal influenza vaccine approved in u.s. (flumist)
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