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...

Table of Contents:

• Mass Vaccination: When and Why
• Mass Vaccination and Surveillance/Containment in the Eradication of Smallpox
• Mass Immunization Programs: Principles and Standards
• Immunization Campaigns in the UK
• Diphtheria
• Universal Mass Vaccination Against Hepatitis A
• Mass Vaccination Against Hepatitis B: The French Example
• Mass Vaccination for Annual and Pandemic Influenza
• Is Global Measles Eradication Feasible?
• Measles Aerosol Vaccination
• Mass Vaccination Campaigns for Polio Eradication: An Essential Strategy for Success
• Rubella Mass Campaigns
• Mass Vaccination to Control Epidemic and Endemic Typhoid Fever
• Mass Vaccination: Solutions in the Skin.