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.
Human anthrax vaccines were developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s and in the US and UK in the 1950s.The current vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was formulated in the 1960s.Currently administered human anthrax vaccines include acellular (USA, UK) and live spore (Russia) varieties.All currently used anthrax vaccines show considerable local and general reactogenicity (erythema, induration, soreness, fever) and serious adverse reactions occur in about 1% of recipients.New third-generation vaccines being researched include recombinant live vaccines and recombinant sub-unit vaccines.he current vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was formulated in the 1960s. Currently administered human anthrax vaccines include acellular (USA, UK) and live spore (Russia) varieties.