Vaccine innovators Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering
By: S. Wood
Series: STEM trailblazer bios; STEM trailblazer bios
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781512407907
Subjects: Whooping cough; Bacteriologists; Pertussis vaccines; Discoveries in science; Juvenile literature; Women bacteriologists
Description: Have you gotten a shot at the doctor's office recently? In the 1920s, about six thousand children a year were dying of pertussis, or whooping cough. Grace Eldering and Pearl Kendrick began to study of the disease, and their research eventually led to a reliable vaccine. Learn how their combined efforts helped to treat and eventually prevent a deadly disease that mostly affected children, as well as providing a model for how to approach public health concerns.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Women in science; title: Dangerous disease; title: The work begins; title: Developing the vaccine; title: Saving lives.