Vaccines
By: by Carol Hand ; content consultant, Jonah B. Sacha, PhD, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Series: Medical marvels
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781617839054
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Vaccination; Juvenile literature; Vaccines; Communicable diseases; Prevention; History
Description: This title follows the development of vaccines, including the race to stop polio, groundbreaking discoveries and the doctors who made them, and where the science is heading in the future. Learn how immunization and vaccines work and how scientists are making them safer. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 104) and index.
Table of contents: title: Polio scourge of summer; title: Introducing vaccines; title: The search for vaccines; title: Types of vaccines; title: Vaccines and public health; title: The process of immunization; title: The anti-vaccine controversy; title: Vaccines of tomorrow.