Timeline of 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 illnesses continue to cause tens of millions of deaths each year. Currently, polio and measles are the targets of active worldwide eradication 

18th century

1796 vaccine for smallpox developed by Edward Jenner. This was the first vaccine developed as a treatment for any disease, and was derived from a weakened version of the disease cowpox.

19th century

1879 First vaccine for cholera

1885 First vaccine for rabies by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux

1890 First vaccine for tetanus

1896 First vaccine for typhoid fever

1897 First vaccine for bubonic plague

20th century

1921 First vaccine for diphtheria

1926 First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)

1927 First vaccine for tuberculosis

1932 First vaccine for yellow fever

1937 First vaccine for typhus

1945 First vaccine for influenza

1952 First vaccine for polio by Jonas Salk

1954 First vaccine for Japanese encephalitis

1954 First vaccine for anthrax

1957 First vaccine for adenovirus-4 and 7

1962 First oral polio vaccine

1963 First vaccine for measles

1967 First vaccine for mumps

1970 First vaccine for rubella

1974 First vaccine for chicken pox

1977 First vaccine for pneumonia (Streptococcus pneumoniae)

1978 First vaccine for meningitis (Neisseria meningitidis)

1981 First vaccine for hepatitis B (first vaccine to target a cause of cancer)

1985 First vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae type b (HiB)

1992 First vaccine for hepatitis A

1998 First vaccine for Lyme disease

1998 First vaccine for rotavirus

21st century

2003 First nasal vaccine for influenza approved in US, FluMist by MedImmune

2006 First vaccine for human papillomavirus, Gardasil by Merck & Co.

2009 Swine flu vaccine

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