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  University of California at San

  Francisco

  University of Chicago

  University of Connecticut

  University of Michigan

  University of Pennsylvania

  Center for Bioethics

  University of Pittsburgh

  Unruh, Leslie

  urea, 123–124 U.S. Department of Health and

  Human Services, 165 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

  U.S. Food and Drug Administration

  U.S. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,

  U.S. Public Health Service

  vaccines

  See also Hilleman, Maurice, and specific diseases and organisms affordability of

  derivation of word

  false alarms discredited

  federal oversight of

  future of

  importance of

  in National Millennium Time

  Capsule

  parental consent in trials of

  profitablity of

  shortages of

  retarded children in trials of

  Vaccines for Children program

  Vagelos, Roy

  van Leeuwenhoek, Anton

  Vatican

  Vierucci, Alberto

  Vinnedge, Debi

  viral surface protein, hepatitis B,

  viruses

  and cancer

  characteristics of

  distinguished from bacteria

  immune responses against

  research in

  vitamin B

  von Behring, Emil

  Voltaire

  Wagner-Jauregg, Julius

  Wakefield, Andrew

  Walker, George

  Walter E. Fernald School

  Walter Reed Army Medical Institute,

  Waring blender

  wars, infectious diseases during

  Washington, George

  Waxman, Henry

  Weibel, Robert

  Weldon, Dave

  Weller, Peter

  Weller, Thomas

  Werhner, Julius

  Werzberger, Alan

  whooping cough

  Why People Believe Weird Things,

  Wieczorek, Dineen

  Wiktor, Tad

  Wildman, Dave and Mary

  Willard Parker Hospital

  Willowbrook State School

  Wistar Institute

  World Bank

  World Health Organization

  Wright, Almroth

  Wuchereria bancrofti

  Wyeth

  yellow fever

  Yersin, Alexandre

  About the Author

  PAUL A. OFFIT, MD, is the chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania medical school. He developed a vaccine for rotavirus. His previous books include The Cutter Incident, a history, as well as two practical books: Vaccines: What You Should Know and Breaking the Antibiotic Habit. He lives near Philadelphia.

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  Copyright

  VACCINATED. Copyright © 2007 by Paul A. Offit, MD. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub Edition © MAY 2007 ISBN: 9780061871511

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