Vaccines : What Everyone Needs to Know®

In the second edition of Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Kristen A. Feemster offers an accessible overview of the science, manufacture, and culture of vaccines in the United States and internationally, with needed updates in light of rapid advances in vaccine technologies and distribution for recent outbreaks in Ebola and COVID-19.

Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an accessible overview of the science, manufacture, and culture of vaccines in the United States and internationally, with needed updates in light of rapid advances in vaccine technologies and distribution. This second edition expands the lens of vaccine access and equity with authoritative insight into the following:

· How vaccines work
· History of vaccines
· Vaccine content and manufacturing
· Vaccine policy and regulation
· Vaccine injury
· Vaccines and alleged effects on autism
· Development of Ebola and COVID-19 vaccines
· Modern global vaccine hesitancy movement

Written by a leading authority in both infectious disease and vaccine education, this book offers a clear-eyed resource for students, clinicians, and general readers interested in the use, efficacy, and controversy surrounding vaccines. In a subject area defined by partisanship, it offers a reliable resource for what everyone needs to know.