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21 Most Important Medical Breakthroughs in Vaccine History
Swipe to explore 21 medical breakthroughs that reshaped vaccine history.
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Swipe to explore 21 medical breakthroughs that reshaped vaccine history. 
21. Synthetic mRNA Vaccines (2020) 
20. The HPV Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer (2006) 
19. Conjugate Vaccines For Bacterial Meningitis (1987) - AdvertisementSwipe or tap ▶ to continue countdown
18. Recombinant DNA Hepatitis B Vaccine (1986) 
17. Global Eradication Of Smallpox (1980) 
16. The Expanded Programme On Immunization (1974) 
15. The Combined MMR Vaccine (1971) - AdvertisementSwipe or tap ▶ to continue countdown
14. Maurice Hilleman's Measles Vaccine (1963) 
13. Albert Sabin's Oral Polio Vaccine (1961) 
12. Jonas Salk's Inactivated Polio Vaccine (1953) 
11. Enders, Weller, And Robbins Cell Culture (1949) - AdvertisementSwipe or tap ▶ to continue countdown
10. First Inactivated Influenza Vaccine (1945) 
9. Embryonated Chicken Egg Culturing (1936) 
8. Max Theiler And Yellow Fever 17D (1937) 
7. Diphtheria And Tetanus Toxoids (1923) - AdvertisementSwipe or tap ▶ to continue countdown
6. Calmette And Guerin's BCG Vaccine (1921) 
5. Waldemar Haffkine's Cholera And Plague Vaccines (1897) 
4. Almroth Wright And Typhoid Inoculation (1896) 
3. Louis Pasteur And Attenuation (1885) - AdvertisementSwipe or tap ▶ to continue countdown
2. Edward Jenner And Smallpox (1796) 
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Over the past two centuries, vaccines transformed lethal plagues into preventable memories. From eighteenth-century smallpox inoculations to genetic engineering, here are twenty-one medical breakthroughs that altered the course of human history.
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