The Warfare on Typhoid

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record 27 Aug 1915 • Page 8

In 1896 Almroth Wright created the typhoid fever vaccination, by the year 1914, it was beginning given to the general public, prior to this, it was only used by the U.S military. In 1915 a newspaper noted that anti-vaxxers of the time were trying to discredit it - the piece cited various data points from military vaccination efforts to prove them wrong.