Timeline of human vaccines

This is a timeline of the development of prophylactic human vaccines. Early vaccines may be listed by the first year of development or testing, but later entries usually show the year the vaccine finished trials and became available on the market. Although vaccines exist for the diseases listed below, only smallpox has been eliminated worldwide. The other vaccine-preventable illnesses continue to cause millions of deaths each year.[1] Currently, polio and measles are the targets of active worldwide eradication campaigns.

18th century

• 1796 – Edward Jenner develops and documents first vaccine for smallpox.[2]

19th century

• 1880 – First vaccine for cholera by Louis Pasteur[3][4]
• 1885 – First vaccine for rabies by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux[5][6]
• 1890 – First vaccine for tetanus (serum antitoxin) by Emil von Behring[7]
• 1896 – First vaccine for typhoid fever by Almroth Edward Wright, Richard Pfeiffer, and Wilhelm Kolle[8]
• 1897 – First vaccine for bubonic plague by Waldemar Haffkine
• 1897 – First antibiotic for typhoid fever by Ernest Duchesne. He made this discovery 32 years before Fleming discovered penicillin, but his research went unnoticed

20th century

• 1921 – First vaccine for tuberculosis by Albert Calmette[9][10]
• 1923 – First vaccine for diphtheria by Gaston Ramon, Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō
• 1924 – First vaccine for scarlet fever by George F. Dick and Gladys Dick
• 1924 – First inactive vaccine for tetanus (tetanus toxoid, TT) by the French Gaston Ramon, C. Zoeller and P. Descombey
• 1926 – First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough) by Leila Denmark
• 1932 – First vaccine for yellow fever by Max Theiler and Jean Laigret
• 1937 – First vaccine for typhus by Rudolf Weigl, Ludwik Fleck and Hans Zinsser
• 1937 – First vaccine for influenza by Anatol Smorodintsev[11]
• 1941 – First vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis
• 1952 – First vaccine for polio (Salk vaccine)
• 1954 – First vaccine for Japanese encephalitis
• 1954 – First vaccine for anthrax
• 1957 – First vaccine for adenovirus-4 and 7
• 1962 – First oral polio vaccine (Sabin vaccine)
• 1963 – First vaccine for measles
• 1967 – First vaccine for mumps
• 1970 – First vaccine for rubella
• 1977 – First vaccine for pneumonia (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
• 1978 – First vaccine for meningitis (Neisseria meningitidis)
• 1980 – Smallpox declared eradicated worldwide due to vaccination efforts
• 1981 – First vaccine for hepatitis B (first vaccine to target a cause of cancer)
• 1984 – First vaccine for chicken pox
• 1985 – First vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae type b (HiB)
• 1989 – First vaccine for Q fever[12]
• 1991 – First vaccine for hepatitis A[13]
• 1998 – First vaccine for Lyme disease
• 1998 – First vaccine for rotavirus[14]

21st century

• 2003 – First nasal influenza vaccine approved in U.S. (FluMist)
• 2006 – First vaccine for human papillomavirus (which is a cause of cervical cancer)
• 2012 – First vaccine for hepatitis E[15]
• 2012 – First quadrivalent (4-strain) influenza vaccine
• 2015 – First vaccine for enterovirus 71, one cause of hand foot mouth disease[16]
• 2015 – First vaccine for malaria[17]
• 2015 – First vaccine for dengue fever[18]
• 2019 – First vaccine for Ebola approved[19]
• 2020 – First vaccine for COVID-19. (Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine)

See also

• Timeline of global health
• History of smallpox
• List of diseases eliminated from the United States

Sources

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