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Vaccination
Vaccination

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Figure 1 Edward Jenner Museum;

Figure 2 Private Collection/Bridgeman;

Figure 3 Roitt, I. et al. (1998) ‘Effect of vaccination on the incidence of viral disease’, Immunology, 5th edn, Elsevier Science Limited.;

Figure 4 Science Photo Library;

Figure 5 Bio-Rad Laboratories;

Figure 9 Reprinted from Armstrong, D., and Cohen, J. (1999) Infectious Diseases, Elsevier Science Limited;

Figure 11 WHO/TDR/M. D. Gupte.

Figure 1.1 Courtesy of George Eastman House;

Figure 1.2 The World Health Organisation;

Figure 1.3 de Quadros, C.A. (1979) ‘Global eradication of poliomyelitis’, Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 127, issue 2, pp. 156-158, American College of Physicians;

Figure 2.2 Reprinted from Infectious Diseases by Armstrong and Cohen, Vol 1, p.22.3 by permission of the publisher Mosby;

Figure 3.1 Dr Alan Cann;

Figure 3.2 Reproduced by permission of Jean-Yves Sgro;

Figure 5.2 Photograph provided courtesy of The World Health Organisation.

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