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|title=The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease

|sort=End of Plagues: Global Battle Against Infectious Disease, The

|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan

|date=October 2013

|summary=World-leading immunologist John Rhodes chronicles the past, outlines the present, and makes suppositions about the future of vaccination in the mission of ending plagues.

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In ''The End of Plagues'', the remarkably clear voice of immunologist John Rhodes takes one through significant moments in man’s battle against infectious diseases. The artillery on which Rhodes focuses is that of the vaccine, which has taken us further away from the extreme grip infections once had on the course of history. The book starts with the example of smallpox, for which Edward Jenner first made a vaccine, having been in a world where variolation was on the rise. Between Jenner’s first serum transfer – from an immune milkmaid to a servant’s son – and the present day, several vaccines have been developed against ailments such as measles, various influenzas, and polio.