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1. The **invention of the vaccine** by Edward Jenner in the late 18th century was a major turning point in public health. He developed the first vaccine against which disease?
Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox were immune to smallpox. He developed a method of inoculation using cowpox to create immunity to the deadlier smallpox virus, essentially creating the first vaccine.