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It is attested in the English language in 1846, deriving from the Latin vaccina, meaning "pertaining to a cow".

Vaccination was coined in 1803 by British physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) to describe the method of injecting people with the cowpox virus in order to prevent smallpox.

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