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Vaccines
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. Vaccines can be prophylactic (to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infec
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In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.
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Science appears calm and triumphant when it is completed; but science in the process of being done is only contradiction and torment, hope and disappointment." － Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French bacteriologist and developer of the first effective treatment for diphtheria
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― The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
― The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
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