A doctor vaccinating a small girl, other girls with loosened blouses wait their turn apprehensively by Lance Calkin

How the first vaccine was distributed 200 years ago

Today, vaccine producers can pack vials at the frequency of millions a day and pass them to nearly any country within hours. Still, when the smallpox vaccine entered in India in the early 1800s, the process of distributing was prolonged.

It was the first vaccine made by people, not factories. Dr Edward Jenner introduced the word vaccination into the scientific literature in…