Shot in the Arm!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #3

Title: Shot in the Arm!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #3 Author: Brown, Don ISBN: 9781419750014 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Published: 2021 Binding: Regular Hardback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Juvenile Non-Fiction 1368003 Publisher Description: Award-winning author Don Brown explores the history of vaccines from smallpox to COVID-19 in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series A Shot in the Arm! explores the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious diseases, from smallpox--perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date--to the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlighting deadly diseases such as measles, polio, rabies, cholera, and influenza, Brown tackles the science behind how our immune systems work, the discovery of bacteria, the anti-vaccination movement, and major achievements from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who popularized inoculation in England, and from sc