The history of vaccines goes way back to 1000 CE. A vaccine timeline on historyofvaccines.org shows that there is evidence that the Chinese in early 1000 CE employed a smallpox inoculation and it was also practiced through Africa and Turkey as well (History of Vaccines). The next big vaccine epidemic started with Edward Jenner. He was a very successful man when his use of cowpox material to create immunity to smallpox quickly made the practice wide-spread in 1796. Edward Jenner took pus from a cow pox lesion on an infected woman and injected it into and eight year old boy and he no longer was affected by that particular disease. He now had immunity to the disease ( History of Vaccines). The eradication of small pox began with this method that
