Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Vaccine Project - New Zealand"
Date: 1961-1963Reference: WF/C/E/05/35Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy / Melissa Leach.
Leach, Melissa.Date: 2005- Videos
Research and development highlights in Greece.
Date: [date of publication not identified]- Books
Vaccines for the 21st century : a tool for decisionmaking / Kathleen R. Stratton, Jane S. Durch, and Robert S. Lawrence, editors ; Committee to Study Priorities for Vaccine Development, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Financing vaccines in the 21st century : assuring access and availability / Committee on the Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Date: [2004], ©2004