The Power of Vaccination

Vaccines have been in the news a lot this week because Wednesday was exclusion day in Oregon schools. (The first day unvaccinated students aren’t allowed to attend school without records explaining the decision.)

OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center researcher Mark Slifka, Ph.D., has appeared in several stories to talk about vaccines and the role they play.

Here he is on KGW this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Slifka will talk further about vaccine research and it’s accomplishments during a free lecture tonight at 7:30 p.m. More info here.

Meanwhile, if you want to know how successful vaccines have been in preventing illness over the years, an amazing graphic can be found in this Forbes story.

 

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Posted by: Jim Newman in Infectious diseases, Outreach, Vacines
On: Thursday, February 21, 2013
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Jim Newman

I am the Associate Director for Media Relations in the Oregon Health & Science University Office of Strategic Communications (Now say that three times fast)

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