It's home to two colleges, Keene State College and Antioch University New England, and the annual Keene Music Festival, when the hippie-music vibe takes over most of this town of 24,000. For years, it was also home to the Pumpkin Festival, which set two world records for most simultaneously lit jack-o'-lanterns.
We begin our history of vaccines and immunization with the story of Edward Jenner, a country doctor living in Berkeley (Gloucestershire), England, who in 1796 performed the worldâs first vaccination. 4 Taking pus from a cowpox lesion on a milkmaidâs hand, Jenner inoculated an eight-year-old boy, James Phipps.his paper explores the history of vaccines and immunization, beginning with Edward Jennerâs creation of the worldâs first vaccine for smallpox in the 1790s.
The measles vaccine was first introduced in the United States in 1963. Before 1989, federal guidelines recommended only one dose of the measles vaccine, so people vaccinated before the guidelines changed generally do not have the coverage thatâs now advised.