Killing Germs, Saving Lives The Quest for the First Vaccines

Name: Killing Germs, Saving Lives The Quest for the First Vaccines
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ISBN: 9780792255383

ISBN-10: 0792255380

ISBN-13: 9780792255383

Edition: N/A

Authors: Glen Phelan

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The challenge for young readers: follow the scientific quest to finding the world's first vaccinesand move towards a future of saving lives worldwide. Thanks to modern vaccines, many diseases, such as smallpox, cholera, and polio, have been virtually eradicated. Before the discovery of vaccines, however, epidemics killed thousands of people worldwide every year. Killing Germs, Saving Lives traces the path to the creation of the vaccines that revolutionized modern medicine. Young readers learn of the background to this historic quest through fascinating profiles of the men and women whose breakthroughs changed the world. Personal portraits of the scientists involved give aspiring young…

Book details

List price: $25.90
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 8/8/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 64
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English