![]() ![]() ![]() From the origins of vaccination in Asia and Africa at least 500 years ago to the fight against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, we will explore the ways vaccines have shaped our world. In Legacy of Vaccines, we will examine these developments through two key vaccines – smallpox and polio – along with the ways public health authorities encouraged the development and acceptance of vaccines and the ways the public have both embraced and resisted these efforts. Yet despite vaccines’ successes and centuries-long history, many people have regarded them with suspicion, and continue to do so today. For other diseases, vaccines remain a hotly pursued Holy Grail in control efforts – such as HIV/AIDS, which is the cause of one in four deaths in South Africa today. Vaccines eradicated smallpox in the wild, a disease that once was the cause of one in thirteen deaths. Course Description Vaccines have been critical to the control of diseases that are nearly forgotten in some places today, but in the past were feared as disabling, scarring, and fatal.
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