Stories
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Vaccinating a community, saving lives
Doctor Jane Harvey always goes the extra mile to care for her patients, and in recent months that’s extended to huge efforts to save lives with her coronavirus vaccination push.
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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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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
Catalogue
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Vaccination as an umbrella to protect children from rain in the form of smallpox, typhoid, tuberculosis and diphtheria. Colour lithograph by R. Sartirana, 193-.
Sartirana, Roger.Date: [1935?]Reference: 549311i- Audio
Vaccination scares.
Date: 2000- Archives and manuscripts
Report of MOH 1911-1912. Appx A - No 11. Digest of the Vaccination Officers' Returns with regard to children whose births were registered in 1910
Date: 1913Reference: SA/RDS/H/17Part of: Research Defence Society- Videos
Vaccination wars.
Date: 2015- Pictures
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Vaccination, washing hands, exclusive breastfeeting and prompt treatment for respiratory illness: protecting children from pneumonia in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2008.
Date: [2008?]Reference: 755549i