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Herlihy, Stacy Mintzer, 1970- author.

Herding immunity : the startling history of life before and after vaccines / Stacy Mintzer Herlihy.

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2024]

vii, 271 pages ; 23 cm

"Vaccines, vital for two centuries, govern our health, societies, and gatherings. A story at once of a few and one of all humanity, Life Before and After Vaccines portrays what life was like without the vaccines that many take for granted, highlighting the collective responsibility to preserve this crucial aspect of human safety"-- Provided by publisher.

Immunization -- History.

Herd immunity.

Vaccination -- History.

Startling history of life before and after vaccines

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Viruses Are Not Our Friends. They Hate Children And Everyone Else. -- They Bombed Cotton Mather's House -- The Founding Fathers Were Intensely Pro Vaccine: You'd Be Too If You Had Children Die of Smallpox -- Summering With Polio: Life Before the Modern Childhood Vaccination Schedule -- The Cutter Incident and The Swine Flu Epidemic That Never Happened: Making Vaccines and Making the Occasional Mistake -- Maurice Hilleman and His Chickens Save Millions of People a Year -- The Drive to the Pediatrician's Office is More Dangerous Than Any Vaccine -- Some Vaccines are Profitable. Some Are Not. We Can Do a Better Job Providing Access to All of Them. -- The Man Who Made Parenting Harder: The Story of Andrew Wakefield -- Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Devoting His Life to Cheering On Preventable Diseases? -- The Anti Vaccination Industry Profits From Spreading Lies on Social Media -- A Vaccine For Type I Diabetes: Why We Might Have Cures For Diseases That Still Terrify Us Today -- Vaccine Voices: Speaking Out For Public Health -- Combating Vaccine Hesitancy And Applauding Those Who Go For It: How to Convince People Needless Suffering is a Truly Bad Idea -- I Would Get This Vaccine in My Eyeball: How the COVID-19 Vaccine Rescued Us All -- Diseases Don't Stand Still. Neither Does Vaccine Science.

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