Vaccines for the 21st Century: A Tool for Decisionmaking

by National Research Council and Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Book Overview

Vaccines have made it possible to eradicate the scourge of smallpox, promise the same for polio, and have profoundly reduced the threat posed by other diseases such as whooping cough, measles, and meningitis.

What is next? There are many pathogens, autoimmune diseases, and cancers that may be promising targets for vaccine research and development.

This volume provides an analytic framework and quantitative model for evaluating disease...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309056462
• ISBN13: 9780309056465
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"