By William Muraskin. 258 pp. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1998. $21.95. ISBN 0-7914-4000-1.
Although Jenner first used his smallpox vaccine more than 200years ago, not until the latter half of this century did the"age of immunizations" begin. No other technological innovationhas come close to yielding the public health benefits that areprovided by vaccines, nearly all of which have become availablewithin the past 50 years. Frighteningly palpable during thefirst half of the century, scourges like poliomyelitis, diphtheria,measles, pertussis, and mumps, with their unavoidable epidemicsand frequently disabling sequelae, are now almost unknown incountries able to muster and sustain effective immunization-deliveryprograms. The most recent and dramatic . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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