A practice organized around delivering vaccines to prevent infection, distinct from disease control practices that respond to disease once circulating. Belongs here: a vaccination program or immunization delivery practice. Does not belong here: surveillance or outbreak response once a disease is already spreading, grouped under disease control practices.
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In 1796, Edward Jenner, a doctor in Berkeley in Gloucestershire, England, tested a common theory that a person who had contracted cowpox would be immune from smallpox.
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