Learn about the importance of vaccines with parody rap song performed by eighth graders!...

If you have any interest in science and public hea...  ...work and genius that went into the development of vaccines as we know them. But there’s always more to...  ...d Jenner is credited with developing the smallpox vaccine , but he was far from the first to use the techniq...

Sixty years ago today, April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas...  ...ty of Michigan made the announcement that a polio vaccine had been created. The nation immediately celebrat...  ...understand why that was so momentous, credit the vaccine announced that day, and another one revealed soon...  ...and Dr. Albert Sabin, the i...

[http://youtu.be/3aNhzLUL2ys] (YouTube link)What d...  ...goes over the basics of the immune system and how vaccines affect them. More of it is about the history of vaccines , and how it’s possible that we can sometime...

[http://youtu.be/dpHXm3Y4pFQ] (YouTube link)This v...  ...ulted. ZDoggMD has more information about HPV and vaccines at his website. The song is performed by ZDoggMD...

View image | gettyimages.comBritish author Roald...  ...wrote an open letter to parents about the measles vaccine , published in a pamphlet from the Sandwell Health...

This map, interactive at the site, shows the vacci...  ...ve been vaccinated are also at risk, because some vaccines take years to gain peak immunity, and even then i...  ...tely unvaccinated, but instead means that certain vaccines are skipped or delayed from the standard immuniza...

During World War II, the German military faced a t...  ...e Soviet Army. They scrambled to develop a typhus vaccine in hurry. Joachim Mrugowsky, head of the SS Hygie...  ...mdash;a Jewish doctor managed to send fake typhus vaccine to the Nazi soldiers at the front, even as he pro...

[http://youtu.be/o-sW_wZoAFk] (YouTube link)ZDogg...  ...ies who had lost a child to diseases that we have vaccines

(Image credit: Flickr user Joan Grífols)...  ...k. At the time, he thought he’d invented a vaccine that would keep him disease free. He was wrong....  ...issecting mosquito spit glands, and working on a vaccine that might be the biggest boon to public health...  ...SituationTo understand how H...