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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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.
Catalogue
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Mass vaccination : global aspects - progress and obstacles / S.A. Plotkin (ed.).
Date: 2006- Books
Proceedings : International Symposium on Microbiological Standardization, Opatija, Yugoslavia, 1960 = Comptes-rendus Symposium international de standardization microbiologique.
International Symposium of Microbiological Standardization (1960 : Opatijaa, Croatia)Date: [1961?]- Books
A celebration of 50 years of progress in biological standardization and control at WHO : WHO headquarters Geneva, 25-27 October 1998 / volume editors, Fred Brown[and others].
Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
International symposium on combined vaccines : proceedings of the 18th symposium organized by the Permanent Section of Microbiological Standardization and held at the University of Marburg : Marburg/L. (West Germany), March 29-31, 1967 / edited by R. H. Regamey [and others].
International Symposium on Combined Vaccines (1967 : Marburg)Date: 1967- Archives and manuscripts
Compulsory Vaccination Act 1853: certificate of the vaccination of Annie Wheeler of Shacklewell, Hackney, London
Date: 1862Reference: MS.7274/7Part of: Certificates and Tickets: English, 19th century