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Immunization Information

Name: Immunization Information
Author: Martin Myers

by Martin Myers

About This Book

Looking for reliable information and answers to your questions about vaccines?

In Immunization Information, Dr. Martin Myers—one of the nation’s leading experts on vaccines, infectious diseases, and immunization—describes the benefits and risks related to immunization and the underlying diseases that vaccines prevent.

Understand what’s in each vaccine and how they work. Learn about the infections that vaccines prevent and why they remain important today. Know how and why your neighbors’ decisions about vaccines can affect you and your family.

Based on science but written in everyday language, Immunization Information helps you distinguish the facts from fiction. It will show you how to identify misinformation, while also showing you how to find reliable, trustworthy information for yourself.

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About the Author

Martin Myers

Dr. Martin Myers is a retired professor of pediatric infectious diseases. The former Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Iowa and then the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, he spent much of his career working with and teaching about vaccines.

He served as Chairman of Pediatrics at Northwestern University, Director of the National Vaccine Program Office in the US Department of Health and Human Services, and Director for Education and Policy of the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch. From 2003 until 2015, he ran a vaccine information website for the National Network for Immunization Information.

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