This is what I knew about vaccines prior to reading this book:
- Vaccines work by delivering a killed or live, but weakened, version of a virus into the body, stimulating the body’s immune system into producing antibodies without actually causing an infection.
- Edward Jenner gets a lot of credit for using cowpox to vaccinate against smallpox, though he wasn’t the first to think about this.
- Vaccines are responsible for preventing death, disability, and disfigurement due …