HISTORY

1797

First vaccination; English doctor injected a child with weakened strain of small pox to protect him from the disease

1883

Vaccination for children against rabies

1970

R. Arnon and M. Sela at the Weizmann Institute in Isreal proved injection of a peptide from a virus, disease, etc. can induce the production of antibodies that recognize the entire virus, disease

1970's

First attempts at developing a vaccine for Hepatitis

1980

First commercial vaccine for Hepatitis B

Developed by Phillipe Moupas at the Institue Pasteur Production and later by M. Hillerman at Merck

1982

First vaccine produced via genetic engineering (vaccines for diarrhea in pigs)

1982

First synthetic vaccine created by Louis Chedid (Institute Pasteur) and Michael Sela (Weizmann Institute) from diptheria toxin