The first vaccines

Do you know that the principle of vaccination was applied by Asian physicians who gave children dried crusts from the lesions (поражения) of people suffering from smallpox to protect against the disease?


The first vaccine was introduced by British physician Edward Jenner, who in 1796 used the cowpox virus (vaccinia) to confer protection against smallpox, a related virus, in humans.

In 1881 French microbiologist Louis Pasteur demonstrated immunization against anthrax by injecting sheep with a preparation containing attenuated forms of the bacillus that causes the disease. Four years later he developed a protective suspension against rabies.

Do you know the name of the first vaccine produced by Pasteur?