Culture Research

摘要

Vaccinations, now a cornerstone of public health programs worldwide, are one of science and public health's most impressive success stories. Ironically, it is precisely because immunization is so effective at preventing disease that we take for granted our modern invulnerability to infections that plagued the generations before us. But vaccination coverage rates have fallen in recent years in the United States, and as a result, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases increasingly make headlines. The Vaccine Race is a timely and vivid reminder of what came before, and what a remarkable human achievement it is to cheat nature-to outsmart a virus.