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Previous Volume 357:1785-1786 October 25, 2007 Number 17

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By Paul A. Offit. 254 pp., illustrated. New York, Smithsonian Books, 2007. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-06-122795-0.

Vaccines topped the list of the most important public health achievements in the United States at the close of the 20th century and contributed decades to the life expectancy of children who were born in the vaccine era. Yet vaccines today generate more controversy than praise, and they remain an invisible resource to the public, hanging in a precarious balance between success in the realm of public health and financial failure in the private sector. Vaccinated, a biography of Maurice Hilleman, is a testament to the effect of one man's efforts to prevent disease through the development of vaccines. Remarkably, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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