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The Vaccine Race

How scientists used human cells to combat killer viruses

Author: Meredith Wadman
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ISBN: 9780857522733
Format: Paperback
Published: January 2017
Published By: Random House Australia
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Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant. There was no vaccine and little understanding of the disease itself. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, USA, using tissue extracted from an aborted feotus from Sweden, produced the biological environment needed to create vaccines against rubella and other common childhood diseases. Two years later, in the midst of a devastating epidemic, his colleague developed the vaccine that would effectively wipe out home-grown rubella. The cell lines that these scientists derived and the methods they pioneered have since been used to vaccinate billions of people around the world, protecting them from polio, rabies, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis A, shingles and adenovirus.
ISBN: 9780857522733
Number of Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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Published Date: 30-Jan-2017
Dimensions (mm): 235x155mm
Publisher: Random House Australia

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