How vaccines changed the world
by NARDO, DON
This book describes how, before the advent of vaccines, epidemics of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, and other crippling diseases ravaged humanity around the globe, and how that began to change when medical researchers developed the first vaccines, using a portion of a disease germ to stimulate the bodys immune reaction. Today, hundreds of millions of people gain immunity to deadly diseases through vaccination.
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- Full title :How vaccines changed the world / Don Nardo.
Summary
This book describes how, before the advent of vaccines, epidemics of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, and other crippling diseases ravaged humanity around the globe, and how that began to change when medical researchers developed the first vaccines, using a portion of a disease germ to stimulate the bodys immune reaction. Today, hundreds of millions of people gain immunity to deadly diseases through vaccination.
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- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):ReferencePoint Press, Inc
- Place of Publication:San Diego, CA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781682824146, 1682824144
- oclc:on1027735593
- LC Classification:RA638
- Dewey Decimal:615.3/72
Table of Contents
Flickers of hope in a disease-ravaged world -- Discovering how the immune system works -- Triumph over a host of deadly maladies -- A modern backlash against vaccination -- New research and the future of vaccines.
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