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The term "Vaccine" was first coined by
Answer: B
The keyed answer is Jenner.
Edward Jenner, who developed smallpox vaccination with cowpox material in 1796, called cowpox variolae vaccinae, 'smallpox of the cow', from the Latin vacca, cow. The word vaccine comes from his term.
Louis Pasteur later proposed extending 'vaccine' to all such preparations in Jenner's honour, but he did not coin it. Robert Koch is known for identifying the bacteria of tuberculosis and cholera, and Georges Kohler for monoclonal antibodies.
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