Vaccinations

Somalia

Last known naturally acquired smallpox was in

Universal vaccination

Smallpox eradication was achieved through ___

Jonas Salk

First effective polio vaccine

Albert Sabin

Oral Polio Vaccine

Walter Reed

Said that yellow fever is transmitted by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

Max Theiler

Developed live, attenuated vaccine against yellow fever

Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato

Demonstrated that Immune protection could be passed via serum.

Paul Ehrlich

Side chain theory

Elvin Kabat

Showed that gamma globulin are crucial in humoral immunity

Sir Rodney Porter and Gerald Edelman

Immunoglobulin structures

Ernst Haeckel

Coined the term phagocytosis

Elie Metchnikoff

Identified that phagocytes contributes to immunity, not just the serum.