Vaccines & your family separating fact from fiction

"Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser answer questions about the science and safety of modern vaccines. In straightforward prose, they explain how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tested. Most important, they separate the real risks of vaccines from feared but unfounded risks"--

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Main Authors: Offit, Paul A. (Author), Moser, Charlotte A. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]
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Summary:"Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser answer questions about the science and safety of modern vaccines. In straightforward prose, they explain how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tested. Most important, they separate the real risks of vaccines from feared but unfounded risks"--
Item Description:"First edition published as Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact fron Fiction, 2011"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:ix, 351 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231213394
0231213395
9780231213387
0231213387
Author Notes:Paul A. Offit, MD, is the director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an internationally recognized vaccine expert and the coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine.

Charlotte A. Moser, MS, is codirector of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and creator of Parents PACK, the center's program for the public. She has spent more than two decades designing content and resources that answer pressing vaccine questions and has published numerous scientific papers related to disease prevention, immunology, and vaccines.