By Arthur Allen. 523 pp., illustrated. New York, W.W. Norton, 2007. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-393-05911-3.
Over the past several decades, most vaccine-preventable diseasesin the United States and other Western nations have been reducedto rare occurrences to such a degree that physicians, nurses,health care workers, and patients are unfamiliar with them.In contrast, some of these same infections remain the majorcauses of illness and death in resource-poor nations. A numberof books about specific infections (such as polio and smallpox)and the vaccines that prevent them have appeared in recent years,but Arthur Allen has chosen to highlight most of the vaccinesthat have evolved in the two centuries since Edward Jenner . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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