- Timeline of vaccines
This is a timeline of the development of prophylactic human
vaccine s. Early vaccines may be listed by the first year of development or testing, but later entries usually show the year the vaccine finished trials and became available on the market. Although vaccines exist for the diseases listed below, onlysmallpox has been eliminated worldwide. The other illnesses continue to cause tens of millions of deaths each year. Currently,polio andmeasles are the targets of active worldwide eradication campaigns.18th century *
1798 First vaccine forsmallpox , first vaccine for any disease publicized byEdward Jenner .19th century *
1879 First vaccine forcholera
*1885 First vaccine forrabies
*1890 First vaccine fortetanus
*1896 First vaccine fortyphoid fever
*1897 First vaccine forbubonic plague 20th century *
1921 First vaccine fordiphtheria
*1926 First vaccine forpertussis (whooping cough)
*1927 First vaccine fortuberculosis
*1932 First vaccine foryellow fever
*1937 First vaccine fortyphus
*1945 First vaccine forinfluenza
*1952 First vaccine forpolio
*1954 First vaccine forJapanese encephalitis
*1954 First vaccine for anthrax
*1957 First vaccine foradenovirus -4 and 7
*1962 First oral polio vaccine
*1963 First vaccine formeasles
*1967 First vaccine formumps
*1970 First vaccine forrubella
*1974 First vaccine forchicken pox
*1977 First vaccine forpneumonia ("Streptococcus pneumoniae ")
*1978 First vaccine formeningitis ("Neisseria meningitidis ")
*1981 First vaccine forhepatitis B (first vaccine to target a cause ofcancer )
*1985 First vaccine for "Haemophilus influenzae" type b (HiB)
*1992 First vaccine forhepatitis A
*1998 First vaccine forLyme disease
*1998 First vaccine forrotavirus 21st century *
2006 First vaccine forhuman papillomavirus ources
* [http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/immunizations/immunization_timeline.html keepkidshealthy] claims "References: the CDC and Mandell: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 5th ed.," as its source.
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