Around the 1950s, the invention of the Dtap vaccine came around to help prevent multiple outbreaks of Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis. The Dtap vaccine stands as one of the first vaccines that people have received and more prominently, children. The Dtap vaccine provides benefits for children who are ages 7 and below. The same exact vaccine with a slightly higher dosage, called Tdap, abide with people above the age of 7. According to an article called “Vaccine Development, Testing, and Regulation,” researchers for this article explain “Belgian scientists Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou isolated the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of pertussis (whooping cough), which they had first observed in 1900” (“Vaccine Development”
