Brenda Cook on ☕️ Coffee & Covid 2025 🦠

[Brenda Cook]

I have a cousin that died in 1944 from SIDS.. she was 5 months old. What vaccines were they giving babies then? I’m sure the military must have been given some during WWII but had any reached the general population at this time?

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Any of these:

18th century

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

19th century

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1884-1885 – First vaccine for cholera by Jaime Ferran y Clua[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

20th century

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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 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]

1940 – First vaccine for anthrax

1941 – First vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis

[Brenda Cook]

Thank you.

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https://vaxopedia.org/2019/07/09/vaccine-schedules-from-the-1940s-to-2019/

Pertussis, typhoid, small pox all before 5 months.