Mass vaccination : global aspects - progress and obstacles / S.A. Plotkin (ed.).

Berlin : Springer, 2006.

viii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Mass vaccination: when and why -- Mass vaccination and surveillance/containment -- Mass immunization programs: principles and standards -- Immunization campaigns in the UK -- Diphtheria -- Universal mass vaccination against Hepatitis A -- Mass vaccination against Hepatitis B: the French example -- Mass vaccination for annual and pandemic influenza -- Is global measles eradication feasible? -- Measles aerosol vaccination -- Mass vaccination campaigns for polio eradication -- Rubella mass campaigns -- Mass vaccinations to control epidemic and endemic typhoid fever -- Mass vaccination: solutions in the skin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.