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may 1, 1796 - Dr Edward Jenner created the world's first successful vaccine.

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Dr Edward Jenner created the world's first successful vaccine. He found out that people infected with cowpox were immune to smallpox. In May 1796, English physician Edward Jenner expands on this discovery and inoculates 8-year-old James Phipps with matter collected from a cowpox sore on the hand of a milkmaid

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may 1, 1796
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~ 230 years ago