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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(4):353; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn067
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorial

The old Edward Jenner and the new public health: the future of vaccines in Europe

Walter Ricciardi

Department of Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Correspondence: Walter Ricciardi, Department of Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. e-mail: wricciardi@m.unicatt.it

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‘Vaccination’, was the word that Jenner invented for his treatment against smallpox (from the Latin vacca, a cow), and so successful did his innovation prove that by 1840 the British government had banned alternative preventive treatments and the word was adopted by Pasteur for immunization against any disease. After clean water, vaccination is the most effective public health intervention in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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