| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file rda |
| Series |
How science changed the world
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| Audience |
Grade 9 to 12. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Vaccines -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature.
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Vaccination -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nardo, Don, 1947- How vaccines changed the world. San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2019 9781682824139 (DLC) 2018009594 |
| ISBN |
9781682824146 (electronic book) |
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1682824144 (electronic book) |
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