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.
It is thought that the disease originated in Africa and spread to the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries through trading ships. The flavivirus that causes yellow fever was first identified in 1928 and the first vaccine against the disease was produced at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in 1937.