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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
Vaccines save millions of lives every year, and one man, Maurice Hilleman, was responsible for nine of the big fourteen. Paul Offit recounts his story and the story of vaccines Maurice Hilleman discovered nine vaccines that practically every child gets, rendering formerly dread diseasesincluding often devastating ones such as mumps and rubellapractically forgotten. Paul A. Offit, a vaccine researcher himself, befriended Hilleman and, during the great mans last months, interviewed him extensively about his life and career. Read more