Vaccine Nation

INDIA’S IMMUNIZATION STORY – FROM COLONIAL TESTING GROUND TO GLOBAL VACCINE HUB When Edward Jenner pricked a young boy’s arm in 1796 to inoculate him against smallpox, he ignited a revolution. Vaccination would go on to transform human health, enabling the eradication and prevention of deadly diseases and saving countless lives. But India remained on the margins of these developments – its people often subjects of Western trials, but its own scientific institutions underdeveloped. This began to