They’re considered one of mankind’s greatest medical achievements, yet people have balked at vaccines almost since the time of the first vaccination – in 1796, when an English country doctor named Edward Jenner inoculated an 8-year-old boy against smallpox. In the mid-1800s, people protested in the streets of Victorian England after the British government began requiring citizens to get the vaccination.
Vaccine opposition has ebbed and flowed over centuries
by Research Team | Feb 15, 2015 | Health News | 0 comments