Mass Vaccination: Global Aspects — Progress and Obstacles

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Plotkin, Stanley A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 304
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Biomedicine.

Mass immunization is the blitzkrieg of vaccination practice. It serves to rapidly protect populations, both because of the high coverage achieved and because of the herd immunity thereby induced. However, as in war, mass immunization campaigns must be conducted intelligently, with careful strategy a...