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How Vaccines Changed the World

Age 12-17
Grade 7-9

Don Nardo

How Vaccines Changed the World

Hardcover (Referencepoint Pr Inc Aug. 1, 2018)
Before the advent of vaccines, enormous epidemics of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, and other crippling diseases ravaged humanity around the globe. That frightening situation began to change when Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, and other pioneering medical researchers developed the first vaccineswhich use a portion of a disease germ to stimulate the bodys immune reaction to that malady. Today, hundreds of millions of people gain immunity to deadly diseases through vaccination.
Series
How Science Changed the World
ISBN
1682824136 / 9781682824139
Pages
80
Weight
9.6 oz.
Dimensions
6.8 x 0.2 in.

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